Case Name: In re Tormu E. PRALL, Petitioner
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-03-26
Citations: 516 F. App'x 138
Docket Number: No. 12-3947
Parties: In re Tormu E. PRALL, Petitioner.
Judges: Before: McKEE, Chief Judge, ALDISERT and BARRY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 516
Pages: 138–139

Head Matter:
In re Tormu E. PRALL, Petitioner.
No. 12-3947.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted Pursuant to Rule 21, Fed. RApp. P. Nov. 2, 2012.
Opinion Filed March 26, 2013.
Tormu E. Prall, Trenton, NJ, pro se.
Attorney General New Jersey, Office of Attorney General of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, for Respondents.
Before: McKEE, Chief Judge, ALDISERT and BARRY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
Pro se litigant Tormu E. Prall has petitioned this Court for a writ of mandamus directing or asking the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey to expeditiously or promptly "screen and serve his complaint, summonses, and motion for temporary restraining order and order to show cause for a preliminary and permanent injunction."
Mandamus is a "drastic remedy" available in extraordinary circumstances only. In re: Diet Drugs Prods. Liab. Litig., 418 F.3d 372, 378 (3d Cir.2005). A petitioner seeking the writ "must have no other adequate means to obtain the desired relief, and must show that the right to issuance is clear and indisputable." Madden v. Myers, 102 F.Sd 74, 79 (3d Cir.1996). Generally, a court's management of its docket is discretionary, In re Fine Paper Antitrust Litig., 685 F.2d 810, 817 (3d Cir.1982), and there is no "clear and indisputable" right to have the District Court handle a case in a certain manner, see Allied Chem. Corp. v. Daiflon, Inc., 449 U.S. 33, 36, 101 S.Ct. 188, 66 L.Ed.2d 193 (1980). However, mandamus may be warranted when a district court's delay "is tantamount to a failure to exercise jurisdiction." Madden, 102 F.3d at 79.
The delay complained of by Prall does not rise to the level of a failure to exercise jurisdiction. Prall filed his complaint in December 2011. He then filed a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 10(c) motion in June 2012 and an addendum to his complaint in September 2012. The Magistrate Judge assigned to Prall's case denied Prall's Rule 10(e) motion in October 2012. Although approximately one year has passed since Prall filed his original complaint, the delay "does not yet rise to the level of a denial of due process." Id. We are fully confident that the District Court will rule on Prall's complaint without undue delay. Thus, the extraordinary remedy of mandamus is not warranted in this case.
Accordingly, we will deny the petition for a writ of mandamus.