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Date Created: 2023-03-19 08:11:10.105469+00
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Case Reinstated; Petition for Writ of             Mandamus      Dismissed    and
Memorandum Opinion filed March 14, 2023.

                                     In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                               NO. 14-22-00930-CV

                       IN RE EIDAN KAZAZ, Relator

                        ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
                          WRIT OF MANDAMUS
                             245th District Court
                            Harris County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. 2021-67474

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On December 21, 2022, relator Eidan Kazaz 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
Tristan Longino, presiding judge of the 245th District Court of Harris County, to
vacate the trial court’s “order of October 5, 2022, and to rehear the matter; to
vacate all portions of the Order relating to the BIPP [Batterers Intervention and
Prevention Program]; or to vacate the condition that the BIPP be completed prior
to consideration of unsupervised access.”

       After December 31, 2022, Judge Longino ceased to hold the office of Judge
of the 245th District Court, Harris County, Texas. Thus, on January 12, 2023, this
Court abated this mandamus proceeding to permit the respondent’s successor, the
Honorable Angela M. Lancelin, 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.”).

       On February 15, 2023, Judge Lancelin signed an Order Modifying
Temporary Orders that provided as follows:

              On this day, the Court considered, pursuant to the Abatement Order
       dated January 12, 2023 from the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, No. 14-22-
       00930-CV, whether to grant Relator Eidan Kazaz’s relief prayed for in
       Petition for Writ of Mandamus filed December 21, 2022.

              The Court FINDS that the record does not support the requirement
       of Relator to complete a BIPP or as a condition precedent to a hearing on
       Relator’s unsupervised access.

              IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED AND DECREED that the Order
       for EIDAN KAZAZ to complete a BIPP is hereby dissolved and that
       completion of such BIPP shall not be a condition precedent to consideration
       of unsupervised access for EIDAN KAZAZ.

              IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that no other terms of the November
       5, 2022 Temporary Order are modified at this time unless expressly stated
       herein.1

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          There appears to be a scrivener’s error in the last paragraph of Judge Lancelin’s order
modifying temporary orders wherein she refers back to the “November 5, 2022 Temporary Order.” The
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      We reinstate this original proceeding.

      Because Judge Lancelin has modified the temporary order as set forth above,
the relief requested in relator’s petition for writ of mandamus is now moot.
Accordingly, we dismiss relator’s petition for writ of mandamus.

                                         PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Chief Justice Christopher and Justices Bourliot and Wilson.

mandamus record contains a temporary order signed on October 5, 2022 by Judge Longino. The
mandamus record does not contain a temporary order signed November 5, 2022.
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