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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re Jason Emanuel SMART-EL, Petitioner.
    No. 15-1111.
    United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    Submitted Pursuant to Rule 21, Fed. R.App. P. Feb. 20, 2015.
    Opinion filed: April 14, 2015.
    Jason Smart-El, Butner, NC, pro se.
    Jason M. Richardson, Esq., Office of United States Attorney, Camden, NJ, for Defendant-Respondent.
    Before: McKEE, Chief Judge, GARTH and BARRY, Circuit Judges.
   OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Jason Emanuel Smart-El filed a petition for writ of mandamus requesting that we direct the District Court to rule on a motion that he had filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The District Court has since granted Smart-El’s § 2255 motion. In light of the District Court’s action, -the question Smart-El presented is no longer a live controversy, so we will dismiss the petition as moot. See, e.g., Lusardi v. Xerox Corp., 975 F.2d 964, 974 (3d Cir. 1992); see also Blanciak v. Allegheny Ludlum Corp., 77 F.3d 690, 698-99 (3d Cir.1996) (“If developments occur during the course of adjudication that eliminate a plaintiffs personal stake in the outcome of a suit or prevent a court from being able to grant the requested relief, the case must be dismissed as moot.”) 
      
       This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not constitute binding precedent.