Virginia Goforth v. Harley Lappin

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 1:09-cv-00003 Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [998661132]. Mailed to: Mr. Goforth, Virginia A. Goforth. [11-6510]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 11-6510

VIRGINIA ARLENE GOFORTH; VIRGINIA ARLENE GOFORTH’S HUSBAND,
and et al,
Plaintiffs – Appellants,
v.
HARLEY G. LAPPIN, Director of Bureau of Prisons; NEWTON
KENDING, Bureau of Prisons Medical Director; AMBER NELSON,
Warden, Alderson Federal Prison Camp; ALICE LOWE, Associate
Warden, Alderson Federal Prison Camp; ALAN BLANKENSHIP,
Health Services Unit Health Administrator, Alderson Federal
Prison Camp; NEAL REHBURG, Doctor of Osteopathy, Alderson
Federal Prison Camp; DEBRA HICKEY, 2006 Warden, Alderson
Federal Prison Camp; DONNA SAFFOLD, 2006 Associate Warden,
Alderson Federal Prison Camp; VICKI DUPREE, Captain,
Alderson Federal Prison Camp; J. ENGLEMAN, Unit Manager, A
Range, Alderson Federal Prison Camp; CYNTHIA GODBOLD, 2006
Unit Manager, A Range, Alderson Federal Prison Camp (Guard
on Duty),
Defendants – Appellees,
and
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, (and specifically herein); THE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS; MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, United
States Attorney General or Predecessor; UNITED STATES
INSPECTOR GENERAL; THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE;
THE UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION, Individually, and
in their official capacity as Custodians/Director of
Custodians,
Defendants.

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern
District of West Virginia, at Bluefield. David A. Faber, Senior
District Judge. (1:09-cv-00003)

Submitted:

August 18, 2011

Decided:

August 23, 2011

Before WILKINSON, DAVIS, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Virginia Arlene Goforth,
Dee Pyne Crane, BUREAU
Stephen
Michael
Horn,
Charleston, West Virginia,

Mr. Goforth, Appellants Pro Se. Lara
OF PRISONS, Beaver, West Virginia;
Assistant
United
States
Attorney,
for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Virginia Arlene Goforth seeks to appeal the district
court’s

order

granting

Defendants’

motion

to

dismiss

or

for

summary judgment as to most claims and Defendants but referring
her claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671
to 2680 (2006), to the magistrate judge for further proceedings.
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, 545-46 (1949).

The

order Goforth seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an
appealable interlocutory or collateral order.
dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
oral

argument

adequately

because

presented

in

the
the

facts

and

materials

legal
before

Accordingly, we
We dispense with
contentions
the

court

are
and

argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED

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