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Date Created: 2023-07-30 08:10:48.845349+00
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Petition for Writ of Mandamus Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed
July 18, 2023.

                                     In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                               NO. 14-23-00374-CV

                   IN RE RONALD SCOTT CATT, Relator

                         ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
                           WRIT OF MANDAMUS
                             268th District Court
                           Fort Bend County, Texas
                    Trial Court Cause No. 22-DCV-290442

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On May 25, 2023, relator Ronald Scott Catt 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 Steve
Rogers, presiding judge of the 268th District Court of Fort Bend County, to
comply with an abatement order issued by this Court in relator’s direct appeal,
requesting that respondent clarify whether the order signed on September 20, 2022
was a final judgment. 1

       On July 3, 2023, the District Clerk’s Office filed a fourth supplemental
clerk’s record in the direct appeal pending before this Court.                          The fourth
supplemental clerk’s record contains a docket page with orders from respondent
that provides as follows:

       07/03/2023 This is a Final Order. SR
       07/03/2023 The Order dated 9/20/22 signed by Judge O’Neil
       Williams is the Final Order in the Case. SR

Because respondent complied on July 3, 2023, with this Court’s abatement order,
the relief requested in relator’s petition for writ of mandamus is moot.
Accordingly, we dismiss relator’s petition for writ of mandamus.

                                               PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Spain, Poissant, and Wilson.

       1
        Relator filed a direct appeal, which is pending before this Court in Ronald Scott Catt v.
Brian Middleton, No. 14-22-00881-CV. The September 20, 2022 order in the underlying case was
signed by the Honorable O’Neil Williams, the former trial judge of the 268th Judicial District Court of
Fort Bend County.
                                                  2