# Brandon Brown v. Samuel Sullivan

> Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · May 5, 2016 · 639 F. App'x 191

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3200927

## Case

- **Full name:** Brandon BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Samuel SULLIVAN, Individually and as Acting President of Paine College; Paine College, Defendants-Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- **Decided:** May 5, 2016
- **Citations:** 639 F. App'x 191
- **Precedential status:** Unpublished
- **Opinion:** Opinion
- **Judges:** Niemeyer, Per Curiam, Shedd, Wynn
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

UNPUBLISHED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Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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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