Charles Carter v. Clarendon County Fire Dept, No. 11-1683 (4th Cir. 2011)

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Court Description: Unpublished opinion after submission on briefs: Dismissed

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 11-1683 CHARLES E. CARTER, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. CLARENDON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT, Defendant - Appellee, and OFFICER BARNEY DOZIER, Clarendon County Sheriffs Dept, Defendant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Charleston. Richard Mark Gergel, District Judge. (2:10-cv-02812-RMG) Submitted: December 15, 2011 Decided: December 19, 2011 Before GREGORY, SHEDD, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Charles E. Carter, Appellant Pro Se. Charles Lloyd Appleby, Gary Thomas Culbreath, COLLINS & LACY, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Charles E. Carter seeks to appeal the district court s order accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and granting summary Department. This judgment court to may the Clarendon exercise County jurisdiction Fire only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2006), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (2006); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 54546 (1949). The order Carter seeks to appeal is neither a final order an nor appealable interlocutory or collateral order. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. dispense with oral argument because the facts and We legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process. DISMISSED 2

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