Court Opinion

ID: 9484395
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:52:18.622779+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:50:13.433524
License: Public Domain

*966MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I would dismiss this petition summarily. The secretary’s motion below for a protective order was out of time and that should be an end to the matter. The district courts simply must be allowed to manage their own dockets: Otherwise, the costs of litigation, and the attendant public dissatisfaction with the prolixity of our legal system, can only continue to increase. The government’s tardiness in this case is, unfortunately, a not atypical example of the kind of behavior that frustrates and embarrasses efficient case management in our trial courts. We ought not to encourage the use of mandamus in circumstances that are not truly extraordinary. I regard the petition in this case as frivolous and itself an abuse of an already overburdened legal process.