Third Circuit disposition — 182104np-pdf

DLD-231 NOT PRECEDENTIAL
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
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No. 18-2104
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IN RE: EVARISTO SERRANO VARGAS,
Petitioner
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On a Petition for Writ of Mandamus from the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
(Related to M.D. Pa. Civ. No. 3-17-cv-00801)
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Submitted Pursuant to Rule 21, Fed. R. App. P.
June 7, 2018
Before: JORDAN, SHWARTZ and KRAUSE, Circuit Judges
(Opinion filed: June 12, 2018)
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OPINION*
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PER CURIAM
Evaristo Serrano Vargas filed a petition for writ of mandamus requesting that we
direct the District Court to rule on a petition that he had filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §
2241. The District Court has since ruled on Serrano Vargas’s § 2241 petition. In light of
the District Court’s action, the question Serrano Vargas presented is no longer a live
* This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not
constitute binding precedent.

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controversy, so we will dismiss his mandamus petition as moot. See, e.g., Lusardi v.
Xerox Corp., 975 F.2d 964, 974 (3d Cir. 1992).

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