Opinion

Brandon Brown v. Samuel Sullivan

  • 639 F. App'x 191
Court
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Filed
May 5, 2016
Status
Unpublished
On the bench
Niemeyer, Per Curiam, Shedd, Wynn
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 43.4%

The opinion

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-1450

BRANDON BROWN,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

SAMUEL SULLIVAN, Individually and as Acting President of

Paine College; PAINE COLLEGE,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of

South Carolina, at Greenville. G. Ross Anderson, Jr., Senior

District Judge. (6:14-cv-04376-GRA)

Submitted: April 22, 2016 Decided: May 5, 2016

Before NIEMEYER, SHEDD, and WYNN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Fletcher N. Smith, Jr., LAW FIRM OF FLETCHER N. SMITH, JR., LLC,

Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellant. Michael M.

Shetterly, OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C.,

Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM:

Brandon Brown seeks to appeal the district court’s orders

transferring this case to the District of Georgia and denying

reconsideration of that order. This court may exercise

jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2012),

and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C.

§ 1292 (2012); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus.

Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949). The orders Brown seeks

to appeal are neither final orders nor appealable interlocutory

or collateral orders. See In re Carefirst of Md., Inc., 305

F.3d 253, 256 (4th Cir. 2002). We do not find persuasive

Brown’s argument that our holding in Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v.

Iraq, 666 F.3d 205, 209-10 (4th Cir. 2011), applies to salvage

this appeal. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of

jurisdiction. We dispense with oral argument because the facts

and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials

before this court and argument would not aid the decisional

process.

DISMISSED

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