Title: Loveless v. Rogers

State: arkansas

Issuer: Arkansas Supreme Court

Document:

Cite as 2009 Ark. 447 ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT No. 09-954 EDWARD LOVELESS Petitioner v. HON. RUSSELL ROGERS, CIRCUIT JUDGE Respondent Opinion Delivered September 24, 2009 PRO SE PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS AND DESIGNATION OF TRANSCRIPT [CIRCUIT COURT OF POPE COUNTY, CV 2008-38] PETITION AND DESIGNATION OF TRANSCRIPT MOOT. PER CURIAM Now before us is a pro se petition for writ of mandamus filed by petitioner Edward Loveless on August 25, 2009. A pro se document filed contemporaneously with the mandamus petition designates the appeal transcript as an exhibit to the petition for writ of mandamus. As that document requests no action, and requires none, it is moot. In the instant petition for writ of mandamus, petitioner asks this court to direct the respondent, the Honorable Russell Rogers, to act on two pro se motions for rule on clerk that petitioner filed in a Pope County circuit court matter. The respondents named in the motions for rule on clerk are Fern Jackson, the clerk of the court, and Judge Roger’s court reporter. In the motions for rule on clerk, petitioner asks that scrivener’s errors contained in a transcript already lodged in this court be corrected. As petitioner’s appeal to this court from the underlying cause of action below has been perfected, and the transcript is now lodged here, this court has exclusive jurisdiction over the matter. Cite as 2009 Ark. 447 Any relief sought must therefore be directed to this court and not to the circuit judge below. Also, subsequent to petitioner’s filing the instant petition, the trial court entered orders that denied both motions filed by petitioner in the trial court. In the orders, the trial court correctly found that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the motions. Furthermore, the very issue raised in the instant petition for writ of mandamus is included in petitioner’s pro se motion to stay the appeal, filed in Edward Loveless v. Fern Tucker, Circuit Clerk of Pope County, Supreme Court Case Number 08-1177. That motion was denied on September 17, 2009. In sum, the instant petition is moot. Petition and designation of transcript moot. -2-