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Date Created: 2023-01-09 00:17:31.341146+00
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Abatement Order filed January 5, 2023.

                                      In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                                NO. 14-22-00387-CV

IN RE METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY OF HARRIS COUNTY,
                     TEXAS, Relator

                         ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
                           WRIT OF MANDAMUS
                              189th District Court
                             Harris County, Texas
                       Trial Court Cause No. 2021-33529

                            ABATEMENT ORDER

      On May 27, 2022, relator Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County,
Texas 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 May 16, 2022, “Order Denying
METRO’s Motion to Compel Plaintiff to Execute Medical/Medicare/Insurance
Authorizations and Respond to Interrogatories Nos. 9 and 12.”

      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
6, 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 Chief Justice Christopher and Justices Wise and Jewell.

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