Mootness of civil case transfer petition following resolution of underlying proceedings

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the applicant's petition for the transfer of the case to another court, ruling that the request had become moot. The dispute concerned a procedural motion to reassign a civil case originally pending before the Târgu-Jiu Court of First Instance; the applicant sought a transfer (strămutare) of the proceedings, but the court noted that the underlying matter was resolved by the original court on September 13, 2013. The decisive legal basis for the dismissal was the procedural doctrine that a petition for case transfer is extinguished when the subject matter ceases to exist or the underlying case is finalized, rendering the request without object.