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FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

IN RE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 14-70486

D.C. No. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 3:13-cv-00470- Petitioner, RCJ-VPC

v.

OPINION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA,

RENO,

Respondent,

PAUL J. MALIKOWSKI; BANK OF

AMERICA, NA,

Real Parties in Interest.

On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Robert Clive Jones, District Judge, Presiding

Argued January 16, 2015 Submitted June 29, 2015 San Francisco, California

Filed June 29, 2015 IN RE UNITED STATES

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.; Concurrence by Judge Wallace

SUMMARY*

Mandamus

The panel denied without prejudice a petition for a writ of mandamus brought by the United States challenging District Judge Robert C. Jones’s policy of denying the applications for pro hac vice admission of U.S. Department of Justice attorneys who are not admitted to the Nevada Bar.

After the United States filed its petition for a writ of…