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223175P.pdf   12/19/2022  Michael Tisius  v.  David Vandergriff
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-3175
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Shepherd and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Habeas. 18 U.S.C. Section 3599 does not permit the 
   district court to compel state officials to take action in furtherance of 
   state clemency proceedings; the court joins other circuits in holding that 
   Sec. 3599 is a funding statute, not a mechanism that grants federal courts 
   authority to oversee and compel state officials to act in furtherance of 
   clemency proceedings; the district court's order compelling state 
   officials to transport or facilitate testing for the purposes of Tisius's 
   clemency cases is vacated.