[This opinion has been published in Ohio Official Reports at 88 Ohio St.3d 1237.]

OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL, APPELLANT, v. JOHN DOE 26 ET AL., APPELLEES. [Cite as Ohio Atty. Gen. v. John Doe 26, 2000-Ohio-356.]

Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed because issues now moot. (No. 99-291—Submitted March 8, 2000—Decided May 10, 2000.)

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, Nos. 98AP-534 and 98AP-623. __________________ Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Edward B. Foley, State Solicitor, pro hac vice, Stephen P. Carney, Associate Solicitor, Melanie Cornelius and Peter M. Thomas, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant.

Law Office of John S. Marshall and Joshua J. Morrow, for appellees. __________________ {¶ 1} The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed because the issues are now moot.

MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur. __________________