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## *AMENDED DLD-44 NOT PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT NO. 06-4519

________________ IN RE: OSSIE ROBERT TRADER, Petitioner

____________________________________ On a Petition for Writ of Mandamus from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Related to Civ. No. 06-cv-04220)

_____________________________________ Submitted Under Rule 21, Fed. R. App. P. November 9, 2006 BEFORE: BARRY, AMBRO AND FISHER, CIRCUIT JUDGES (Filed December 14, 2006)

_______________________ OPINION

_______________________ PER CURIAM Ossie Robert Trader, a federal inmate, petitions for a writ of mandamus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 requiring the District Judge to act on his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed on September 21, 2006, and a bail motion filed on October 17,1 

## We construe Trader’s “Motion Pursuant to Rule 28(j) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Citation of Supplemental Authorities” as a motion to expand the scope of his mandamus petition and grant it only to the extent that it seeks to include the bail motion in his mandamus petition. In all other respects the motion is denied.
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## Even if we were to construe Trader’s petition for a writ of mandamus as relating to the August 4, 2006, motion brought under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) that is pending in his criminal case (E.D. Pa. Crim. No. 94-cr-00534), the time elapsed clearly would not amount to undue delay. 2 

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## Mandamus is a drastic remedy granted only in extraordinary cases. See In re Diet Drugs Prods. Liab. Litig. , 418 F.3d 372, 378 (3d Cir. 2005). The petitioner must establish that she has “no other adequate means” to obtain relief and that she has a “clear and indisputable” right to issuance of the writ, andthe reviewing court must determine that the writ is appropriate under the circumstances. Id. at 378-79. District courts are generally given discretion over management of their dockets. See In re Fine Paper Antitrust Litig. , 685 F.2d 810, 817-18 (3d Cir. 1982). Only when undue delay is tantamount to a failure to exercise jurisdiction does it provide grounds for issuance of a writ of mandamus. See Madden v. Myers , 102 F.3d 74, 79 (3d Cir. 1996). Trader filed the instant mandamus petition in this court on October 25, 2006, just 34 days after filing his petition for habeas corpus in District Court and eight days after filing the bail motion. Such routine delay falls well short of what might support issuance of a writ of mandamus by this Court. 2

## See id. (more than 130 days without ruling on a Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation regarding a petition

## for writ of habeas corpus not grounds for issuing writ of mandamus). For the foregoing reasons, the petition for a writ of mandamus is denied in its entirety.

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