
    Care and Protection of Lorraine.
    March 5, 1996.
    
      Supreme Judicial Court,
    
    Superintendence of inferior courts.
    
      Moot Question. Practice, Civil, Moot case.
    
      Robert A. Sherman (Peter F. Carr with him) for the mother.
    
      Katherine M. Potter for Department of Social Services.
    
      Pamela B. Bankert (.Alison Lowe with her) for the minors.
    
      Jinanne S.J. Elder & Amy M. Karp, Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.
   Because the underlying order in the trial court that was the subject of this G. L. c. 211, § 3 (1994 ed.), proceeding has been vacated, the appeal from a single justice’s order concerning the trial court’s order is moot. The order of the single justice is vacated, and a judgment shall be entered dismissing the petition as moot and not on the merits.

So ordered.  