Opinion
No. 16-4205
02-07-2017
IN RE: DENNIS JAMES MAYER, Petitioner
DLD-106
NOT PRECEDENTIAL
On a Petition for Writ of Mandamus from the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
(Related to W.D. Pa. Civ. No. l-15-cv-00232) Submitted Pursuant to Rule 21, Fed. R. App. P.
January 19, 2017
Before: CHAGARES, VANASKIE and KRAUSE, Circuit Judges OPINION PER CURIAM
This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not constitute binding precedent.
Pro se petitioner Dennis James Mayer seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania to issue a final appealable order in his federal habeas case.
We previously dismissed Mayer's appeal of the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation for lack of jurisdiction. See C.A. No. 16-3338. --------
By order entered on December 9, 2016, the District Court granted Respondents' motion to dismiss, denied Mayer's habeas petition, and declined to issue a certificate of appealability. Because Mayer has now received the relief he requested in his mandamus petition - a final, appealable order - we will dismiss his mandamus petition as moot. See Blanciak v. Allegheny Ludlum Corp., 77 F.3d 690, 698-99 (3d Cir. 1996).