Transfer of jurisdiction (strămutare) dismissed as moot after final judgment of the underlying civil case

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the petition for transfer of jurisdiction (strămutare) filed by the plaintiff, ruling that the request was rendered moot ("remaining without object") following the lower court's resolution of the underlying case. The dispute involved a procedural motion to transfer a file from the Craiova Court of Appeal, complicated by the plaintiff's filing of a completion to the transfer request and a copy of a document after the lower court had already issued its final decision on November 14, 2012, and after the respondent had submitted its written answer in December 2012. The decisive legal basis for the dismissal was the procedural doctrine of mootness, as the existence of a final decision in the main proceedings eliminated the prerequisite for a jurisdictional transfer, resulting in a final, non-appealable order.