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Date Created: 2023-01-16 00:11:25.103073+00
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Abatement Order filed January 10, 2023.

                                       In The

                     Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                                 NO. 14-22-00867-CV

                  IN RE PENSEK LOGISTICS LLC, Relator

                          ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
                            WRIT OF MANDAMUS
                               189th District Court
                              Harris County, Texas
                        Trial Court Cause No. 2022-40178

                            ABATEMENT ORDER

      On November 23, 2022, relator Pensek Logistics LLC filed a petition for
writ of mandamus in this Court. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 22.221; see also Tex.
R. App. P. 52. In the petition, relator asks this Court to compel the Honorable Scot
Dollinger, presiding judge of the 189th District Court of Harris County, to vacate
the trial court’s October 17, 2022 order denying relator’s Rule 91A motion to
dismiss causes of action based on the statute of limitations.
      Because Judge Dollinger ceased to hold the office of Judge of the 189th
District Court, Harris County, Texas, we are required to abate this mandamus
proceeding to permit the respondent’s successor, the Honorable Tamika Craft, to
consider the decision regarding relator’s request for relief. See Tex. R. App. P.
7.2(b); see also In re Baylor Med. Ctr. at Garland, 280 S.W.3d 227, 228 (Tex.
2008) (orig. proceeding) (“Mandamus will not issue against a new judge for what a
former one did.”).

      Therefore, we abate this proceeding, treat it as a closed case, and remove it
from the court’s active docket. This original proceeding is abated until February
10, 2023 to permit Judge Craft to consider the order underlying relator’s request
for relief. On or before that date, Judge Craft shall advise this Court of the action
taken on relator’s request by filing a signed order reflecting her ruling concerning
relator’s request for relief with this court. This Court will then consider a motion
to reinstate or dismiss the original proceeding, as appropriate.

                                        PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Wise, Jewell, and Poissant.

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