Ghodrat Farahani (petitioner) appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying his petition for extraordinary relief.1 He had requested the single justice to issue various orders to ensure docketing of and action on pleadings the petitioner had filed, and might file in the future, in assorted civil cases in the Superior Court in Bristol County. He failed to substantiate his claims, however, that some of the pleadings he had filed in the Superior Court had languished without proper attention. See Gorod v. Tabachnick, 428 Mass. 1001, 1001, cert, denied, 525 U.S. 1003 (1998); Matthews v. D’Arcy, 425 Mass. 1021, 1022 (1997). In addition, he failed to show why an appeal from any adverse final judgment (as appears to have entered in several of the cases the petitioner has identified), or other steps short of an exercise of this court’s extraordinary superintendence power could not provide him adequate relief. See Muldoon v. Superior Court Dep’t of the Trial Court, 439 Mass. 1010 (2003); Matthews v. D’Arcy, supra; Zatsky v. Zatsky, 36 Mass. App. Ct. 7, 12 (1994). We therefore conclude that the single justice neither abused her discretion nor otherwise erred in denying the petition.2

Judgment affirmed.