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Date Created: 2023-06-01 18:00:49.549629+00
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Case: 22-60459          Document: 00516770938            Page: 1      Date Filed: 06/01/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit                                          United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                           Fifth Circuit

                                       ____________                                      FILED
                                                                                      June 1, 2023
                                        No. 22-60459                                  Lyle W. Cayce
                                       ____________                                        Clerk

   Nena Mauritz; Matthew Mauritz,

                                                                     Plaintiffs—Appellees,

                                             versus

   Scott Lynn; Hattiesburg Clinic, P.A.,

                                              Defendants—Appellants.
                      ______________________________

                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Southern District of Mississippi
                                USDC No. 2:20-CV-184
                      ______________________________

   Before Richman, Chief Judge, and Stewart and Douglas, Circuit
   Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          After dismissing Plaintiffs-Appellees’ federal law claims under the
   Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) 1 and Title VII of the Civil Rights
   Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), 2 the district court declined to exercise
   supplemental jurisdiction over their state law claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §
          _____________________
          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
          1
              42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq.
          2
              42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq.
Case: 22-60459     Document: 00516770938           Page: 2   Date Filed: 06/01/2023

                                    No. 22-60459

   1367(c) and remanded those claims to state court. In a related appeal, No. 22-
   60371, Mauritz v. Lynn, 2023 WL 3122467 (5th Cir. Apr. 27, 2023), Plaintiffs-
   Appellees challenged the district court’s order dismissing their federal law
   claims. While that appeal was pending, Defendants-Appellants, who
   originally removed the case from state court to federal court pursuant to 28
   U.S.C. § 1441(a), filed this appeal challenging the district court’s remand
   order. Subsequent to the filing of this appeal, another panel of this court
   issued a ruling in the companion case, reversing and remanding the district
   court’s order dismissing Plaintiffs-Appellees’ claim under the ADA. Both
   parties now agree that this court’s ruling in the companion case removes the
   predicate for the remand that is the subject of this appeal. Accordingly, we
   DISMISS this appeal as MOOT.

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