In Re Melvin M. Marin. Melvin M. Marin v. William K. Suter, Clerk, United States Supreme Court

How courts have described this case

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• explaining district court lacks jurisdiction to “compel the Clerk of the Supreme Court to take any action”
• affirming dismissal of case in which plaintiff “claim[ed] the Clerk erroneously rejected certain of his filings”
• affirming “the district court’s order dismissing Marin’s complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction”
• “ ‘[I]t seems axiomatic that a lower court may not order the judges or officers of a higher court to take an action.’ ”
• district courts may not “compel the Clerk of the Supreme Court to take any action”
• “We 5 are aware of no authority for the proposition that a lower court may compel the Clerk of the Supreme Court to take any action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).