Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-07-06 16:00:58.635631+00
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United States Court of Appeals
                            For the Eighth Circuit
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                                No. 23-1078
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                                  Brian J. Dorsey

                      lllllllllllllllllllllPetitioner - Appellant

                                          v.

                                David Vandergriff

                      lllllllllllllllllllllRespondent - Appellee
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                     Appeal from United States District Court
                for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
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                            Submitted: June 30, 2023
                              Filed: July 6, 2023
                                [Unpublished]
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Before LOKEN, GRUENDER, and GRASZ, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

     Missouri prisoner Brian Dorsey, who has been sentenced to death for two
murders, appeals the district court’s1 denial of his motion to order the Missouri

      1
      The Honorable Roseann A. Ketchmark, United States District Judge for the
Western District of Missouri.
Department of Corrections to transfer him to a facility for magnetic resonance
imaging, which he sought in support of state clemency proceedings.

       With respect to Dorsey’s reliance on 18 U.S.C. § 3599, this court has already
determined that “[s]ection 3599’s authorization for funding neither confers nor
implies an additional grant of jurisdiction to order state officials to act to facilitate an
inmate’s clemency application,” Tisius v. Vandergriff, 55 F.4th 1153, 1155 (8th Cir.
2022), cert. denied, No. 22-7398, 2023 WL 3804604 (U.S. June 5, 2023), and this
panel is bound by that decision, see Mays v. Bd. of Educ. of Hamburg Sch. Dist., 834
F.3d 910, 918 n.4 (8th Cir. 2016). As to Dorsey’s reliance on the All Writs Act, 28
U.S.C. § 1651, that statute does not provide the district court the authority to grant
the relief requested.

       Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
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