Case Name: In re Nezzy ADDERLY, Petitioner
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-12-01
Citations: 453 F. App'x 161
Docket Number: No. 11-3921
Parties: In re Nezzy ADDERLY, Petitioner.
Judges: Before: SCIRICA, SMITH and CHAGARES, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 453
Pages: 161–162

Head Matter:
In re Nezzy ADDERLY, Petitioner.
No. 11-3921.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted Pursuant to Rule 21, Fed. R.App. P. Nov. 10, 2011.
Filed: Dec. 1, 2011.
Nezzy Adderly, Fort Dix, NJ, pro se.
Alicia M. Freind, Esq., Paul Mansfield, Esq., Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA, for United States of America.
Before: SCIRICA, SMITH and CHAGARES, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM.
In 2007, Nezzy Adderly pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He was sentenced as an armed career criminal to a mandatory minimum of one-hundred eighty months of imprisonment. See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). We affirmed his judgment of conviction and sentence. C.A. No. 07-3753. In 2009, Adderly filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, which the District Court denied as meritless. We denied a certificate of ap-pealability. Adderly also filed a motion for reconsideration, which the District Court denied. We dismissed his appeal for lack of jurisdiction on January 26, 2011. C.A. No. 10-3791.
While his appeal of the District Court's denial of his motion for reconsideration was pending, Adderly filed a motion to reopen in the District Court in November 2010. Adderly then filed a motion to amend his motion to reopen on March 14, 2011. On October 25, 2011, Adderly filed a pro se mandamus petition with this Court, seeking to compel the District Court to rule on his motion to reopen.
Mandamus is a drastic remedy available •in only the most extraordinary circumstances. In re Diet Drugs Prods. Liab. Litig., 418 F.3d 372, 378 (3d Cir.2005). "A petitioner seeking the issuance of a writ of mandamus 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.3d 74, 79 (3d Cir.1996). Although we may issue a writ of mandamus when a district court's "undue delay is tantamount to a failure to exercise jurisdiction," Madden, 102 F.3d at 79, the manner in which the district court controls its docket is discretionary, see In re Fine Paper Antitrust Litig., 685 F.2d 810, 817 (3d Cir.1982).
The District Court has yet to rule on Adderly's motion to reopen. However, we conclude that this does not constitute a failure to exercise jurisdiction. We are confident that the District Court will rule on Adderly's pending motion to reopen without further delay. Accordingly, we will deny Adderly's mandamus petition.