FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT DUSHUN A. WHITE,  No. 06-55940 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No. CV-05-08237-GAF A. P. KANE, ORDER Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Gary A. Feess, District Judge, Presiding Submitted February 7, 2011* Pasadena, California Filed February 14, 2011 Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Stephen Reinhardt, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.

COUNSEL Arthur Henry Weed, Santa Barbara, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

Heather Bushman, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the California Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the respondent-appellee.

* The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

2325 2326 WHITE v. KANE ORDER Respondent-Appellee Kane’s motion to dismiss this case is granted. In light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Swarthout v. Cooke, ___ S. Ct. ___, 2011 WL 197627 (Jan.

24, 2011), Petitioner White’s request for a certificate of appealability is foreclosed.

The motion to dismiss is GRANTED.

DISMISSED.