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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re: Robert HAYDEN, Petitioner.
    No. 05-1265.
    United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    Submitted Under Rule 21, Fed. R.App. P. April 29, 2005.
    Decided Aug. 25, 2005.
    Robert W. Hayden, Lewisburg, PA, pro se.
    Laura S. Irwin, Office of United States Attorney, Pittsburgh, PA, for Respondent.
    Before Chief Judge SCIRICA, WEIS and GARTH, Circuit Judges.
   OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Robert Hayden, proceeding pro se, seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania to act on the motion that he filed in this matter in August 2003, which he styled as a Rule 60(b) motion.

Mandamus is an appropriate remedy only in the most extraordinary of situations. In re Pasquariello, 16 F.3d 525, 528 (3d Cir.1994). To warrant such a remedy, a petitioner must show that he has (I) no other adequate means of obtaining the desired relief and (ii) a “clear and indisputable” right to issuance of the writ. See Haines v. Liggett Group, Inc., 975 F.2d 81, 89 (3d Cir.1992) (citing Kerr v. United States District Court, 426 U.S. 394, 402, 96 S.Ct. 2119, 48 L.Ed.2d 725 (1976)).

Hayden’s motion was pending at the time he filed this mandamus petition. However, the District Court denied Hayden’s motion by order entered August 3, 2005. Thus, the request for relief before us is now moot.

Accordingly, we will deny the petition for a writ of mandamus. 
      
      . In 1994, Hayden was convicted of using extortionate means to collect or attempt to collect an extension of credit; he was sentenced to 188 months of imprisonment. In July 2002, he filed a § 2255 motion, which the District Court denied. We denied his request for a certificate of appealability in May 2003.