In Re Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

This is a petition for writ of mandamus filed by Larry Norris, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction. In our opinion filed on May 5, 1994, 23 F.3d 1396, the petition was dismissed as moot with respect to two eases on the docket of the District Court. With respect to the third case referred to in the petition, Clay Anthony Ford v. A.L. Lockhart, No. PB-C-82-431, we directed that the petition be held on our docket pending action by the District Court.

On August 30, 1994, the District Court entered judgment in the Ford case, 861 F.Supp. 1447. An appeal from this judgment is now…