Case Name: In re Larry NORRIS, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Petitioner
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1994-10-28
Citations: 38 F.3d 1046
Docket Number: No. 94-1544
Parties: In re Larry NORRIS, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Petitioner.
Judges: Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN, FAGG, BOWMAN, WOLLMAN, MAGILL, BEAM, LOKEN, HANSEN, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, En Banc.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 38
Pages: 1046–1046

Head Matter:
In re Larry NORRIS, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Petitioner.
No. 94-1544.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Oct. 28, 1994.
Clint Miller, Little Rock, AR, for appellant.
Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN, FAGG, BOWMAN, WOLLMAN, MAGILL, BEAM, LOKEN, HANSEN, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, En Banc.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is a petition for writ of mandamus filed by Larry Norris, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction. In our opinion filed on May 5, 1994, 23 F.3d 1396, the petition was dismissed as moot with respect to two eases on the docket of the District Court. With respect to the third case referred to in the petition, Clay Anthony Ford v. A.L. Lockhart, No. PB-C-82-431, we directed that the petition be held on our docket pending action by the District Court.
On August 30, 1994, the District Court entered judgment in the Ford case, 861 F.Supp. 1447. An appeal from this judgment is now pending as No. 94-3469 in this Court. The purpose of the petition for mandamus was to obtain a decision in the District Court. This decision has now occurred, and nothing remains to be done in the mandamus proceeding. It has become moot and should therefore be dismissed.
Dismissed.