Michael Cornelius v. Columbia, City of

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Motion disposition in opinion--denying Motion for transcript at government expense [998230371-2] in 09-2258 Originating case number: 3:08-cv-02508-MJP-PJG Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [998455858] [09-2258, 09-2264]

Michael Cornelius v. Columbia, City of

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 09-2258 MICHAEL CORNELIUS, Plaintiff ­ Appellant, v. COLUMBIA, CITY OF, South Carolina, Defendant ­ Appellee.

No. 09-2264 MICHAEL CORNELIUS, Plaintiff ­ Appellant, v. COLUMBIA, CITY OF, Columbia, SC, Defendant ­ Appellee.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Matthew J. Perry, Jr., Senior District Judge. (3:08-cv-02508-MJP-PJG; 3:06-cv-03215-MJP) Submitted: September 14, 2010 Decided: October 29, 2010

Before GREGORY and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

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No. 09-2258 dismissed; No. 09-2264 affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Michael Cornelius, Appellant Pro Se. William Allen Nickles, III, Carl Lewis Solomon, GERGEL, NICKLES & SOLOMON, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM: In these consolidated appeals, Michael Cornelius seeks to appeal the district court's September 28, 2009 order granting in part Defendant's motion to strike (No. 09-2258) and appeals the court's September 30, 2009 order adopting the recommendation of the magistrate in judge and granting civil summary judgment to age

Defendant

Cornelius's

action

alleging

discrimination (No. 09-2264). This court may exercise jurisdiction 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, 54547 (1949). The September 28 order is neither a final order nor We therefore

an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

dismiss the appeal in No. 09-2258 for lack of jurisdiction and deny Cornelius's pending motion for a transcript at government expense. In No. 09-2264, we have reviewed the record and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons Cornelius v. City of Columbia, filed Sept. 29, 2009; entered

stated by the district court. No. 3:06-cv-03215-MJP (D.S.C.

Oct. 1, 2009).

We deny the pending motion for a transcript at

government expense.

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We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal before contentions the court are and adequately argument presented not in aid the the materials decisional

would

process. No. 09-2258 DISMISSED No. 09-2264 AFFIRMED

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