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Parties Involved:
State of California
Respondent
Arthur Lee Walton
Petitioner

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ARTHUR LEE WALTON,

Petitioner, No. CIV S-09-2351 EFB P

vs.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA,

Respondent. ORDER

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Petitioner is a state prisoner without counsel seeking a writ of habeas corpus. See 28

U.S.C. § 2254. This case is before the undersigned pursuant to the parties’ consents. 

Petitioner has filed a motion for a certificate of appealability, as well as a notice of

interlocutory appeal, from the Clerk of the Court’s denial of petitioner’s request for entry of

default. Dckt. Nos. 23, 24, 25.

The court must issue or deny a certificate of appealability when it enters a final order

adverse to the applicant. Rule 11, Rules Governing § 2254 cases. Here, the court declines to

issue a certificate of appealability because the court has not entered a final order adverse to

petitioner. Rather, respondent has submitted an answer in response to the petition, and the

matter is now submitted for decision. See Dckt. No. 18.

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Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), the court may certify a question for appeal based an

order not otherwise appealable if the “order involves a controlling question of law as to which

there is substantial ground for difference of opinion and [ ] an immediate appeal from the order

may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation.” The Clerk of the Court

properly declined petitioner’s request for entry of default. Accordingly, the court declines to

certify any question for appeal and the Clerk is directed to terminate docket entries 24 and 25.

So ordered. 

DATED: August 5, 2010.

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