
    STATE of North Carolina ex rel. Utilities Commission; Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc., Applicant; Public Staff - North Carolina Utilities Commission, Intervenor v. ATTORNEY GENERAL ROY COOPER, Intervenor.
    No. 343P06.
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    October 5, 2006.
    Margaret A. Force, Assistant Attorney General, for Cooper.
    James H. Jeffries, IV, Charlotte, for Utilities Commission.
    Jane Lewis-Raymond, for PNGC.
    Gina Holt, for Public Staff.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the petition filed by Attorney General on the 26th day of June 2006 in this matter for discretionary review under G.S. 7A-31 prior to a determination by the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:

"Dismissed as moot by order of the Court in conference, this the 5th day of October 2006."  