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HLD-003                                                  NOT PRECEDENTIAL
                              UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
                                        ___________

                                                  No. 23-2960
                                                  ___________

                    IN RE: ZEMIRAH MELODY CAROL RUTH EL, Trustee
                                                   Petitioner
                          ____________________________________

                         On a Petition for Writ of Mandamus from the
              United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
                         (Related to E.D. Pa. Civ. No. 2:22-cv-04062)
                         ____________________________________

                            Submitted Pursuant to Rule 21, Fed. R. App. P.
                                         December 7, 2023

     Before: CHAGARES, Chief Judge, SHWARTZ, and RESTREPO, Circuit Judges

                                        (Opinion filed April 8, 2024)
                                                _________

                                                    OPINION*
                                                    _________

PER CURIAM

         On November 6, 2023, Petitioner Zemirah El filed a pro se petition for a writ of

mandamus asking this Court to order the District Court to act on her second request for

default judgment against Respondent. We will deny the Petition.

         By order entered January 11, 2023, the District Court denied Petitioner’s first

motion for default judgment and referred the request to the Clerk of Court for the Eastern

*
 This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not constitute binding
precedent.

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District of Pennsylvania. Respondent appeared and filed a motion to dismiss Petitioner’s

complaint on January 18, 2023. Thereafter, Petitioner filed a second motion for default

judgment on January 27, 2023, that Respondent filed a response in opposition to on

March 23, 2023. Petitioner subsequently filed documents in support of the second motion

for default judgment, including requests to expedite a ruling on the same. On December

14, 2023, the District Court granted Respondent’s motion to dismiss Petitioner’s

complaint and denied Petitioner’s second motion for default judgment.

       As Petitioner’s mandamus petition no longer presents a live controversy, we will

dismiss it as moot. See Blanciak v. Allegheny Ludlum Corp., 77 F.3d 690, 698-99 (3d

Cir. 1996) (“If developments occur during the course of adjudication that . . . prevent a

court from being able to grant the requested relief, the case must be dismissed as moot.”).

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