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Date Created: 2023-06-16 18:00:44.816531+00
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Case: 22-20534        Document: 00516789572             Page: 1      Date Filed: 06/16/2023

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

                                     ____________                                     FILED
                                                                                  June 16, 2023
                                      No. 22-20534                               Lyle W. Cayce
                                    Summary Calendar                                  Clerk
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   Austin Thompson Hughes,

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Art Acevedo; Michael Garcia; Joshua Few; James
   Seymour,

                                             Defendants—Appellants.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                         for the Southern District of Texas
                              USDC No. 4:21-CV-1994
                     ______________________________

   Before Clement, Southwick, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         This case involves claims of unlawful arrest and assertions of qualified
   immunity. But the appellants here appealed not a written final judgment, but
   rather oral statements made during a status hearing on a motion to dismiss.
   Then, when the district court eventually memorialized those statements in
   writing and declined to dismiss the case on qualified immunity grounds, the
         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-20534     Document: 00516789572           Page: 2   Date Filed: 06/16/2023

                                    No. 22-20534

   appellants again appealed. That second appeal has been docketed separately,
   rendering this first appeal moot. See FTC v. Nat’l Bus. Consultants, Inc., 376
   F.3d 317, 318 n.1 (5th Cir. 2004).
          Thus, this case is DISMISSED AS MOOT.

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