Michael Kanode, Sr. v. Derek Swope
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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 1:09-cv-01530,1:10-cv-00407,1:12-cv-06068,1:12-cv-00157,1:11-cv-00994 Copies to all parties and the district court. [999027296]. Mailed to: Michael Kanode, Sr.. [12-8005]
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 12-8005
MICHAEL J. KANODE, SR.,
Plaintiff – Appellant,
v.
DEREK C. SWOPE, Judge; SCOTT ASH, Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney; MIKE L. GILLS, Detective; MERCER COUNTY SHERIFF'S
DEPARTMENT; MICHAEL P. COOKE; MCGINNIS E. HATFIELD, JR.;
ANTHONY BISAHA, Family Court Judge; SHERRY KANODE; WEST
VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES, and
Child Protection Services; STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA; SOUTHERN
HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC.; SERGEANT MALISSA
CLEMONS; KRISTA ELLISON; SERGEANT JOSE CENTENO; DEPUTY J.
D. ELLISON; TIMOTHY BOGGESS, 120 Scott Street, Suite 200
Princeton, WV 24740
Prosecutor; DEBORAH GARTON, 120 Scott
Street, Suite 200 Princeton, WV 24740; NISSA KAHLE, Mercer
County Prosecutor's Office 120 Scott Street Princeton, WV
24740; DANNY RAY WILLS, Mercer County Sheriff's Dept. 1501
W. Main Street Princeton, WV 24740 Former Sheriff; TONIA
HODGES, Mercer County Department of Health and Human
Resources
200 Davis Street
Princeton, WV 24740; MARSHA
EDWARDS, Mercer County Department of Health and Human
Resources
200 Davis Street
Princeton, WV 24740; ROBB
MOTT, 200 12th Street Princeton, WV 24740 Commissioner of
Southern Highlands Mental Health Community Center,
Defendants - Appellees.
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-01530; 1:10-cv-00407; 1:12-cv-06068;
1:12-cv-00157; 1:11-cv-00994)
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Submitted:
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January 17, 2013
Decided: January 23, 2013
Before GREGORY, SHEDD, KEENAN, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Michael J. Kanode, Sr., Appellant Pro Se.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:
Michael J. Kanode, Sr., seeks to appeal the district
court’s order adopting the magistrate judge’s recommendation and
dismissing
Kanode’s
42
U.S.C.
§ 1983
(2006)
related petition for writ of mandamus.
complaints
and
We dismiss the appeal
for lack of jurisdiction because the notice of appeal was not
timely filed.
Parties are accorded thirty days after the entry of
the
district court’s final judgment or order to note an appeal,
Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), unless the district court extends
the appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5), or reopens the
appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6).
“[T]he timely
filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional
requirement.”
Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).
The district court’s order was entered on the docket
on
September
28,
November 9, 2012. *
2012.
The
notice
of
appeal
was
filed
on
Because Kanode failed to file a timely notice
of appeal or to obtain an extension or reopening of the appeal
period, we dismiss the appeal.
We dispense with oral argument
because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented
*
For the purpose of this appeal, we assume that the date
appearing on the notice of appeal is the earliest date it could
have been properly delivered to prison officials for mailing to
the court. Fed. R. App. P. 4(c); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266
(1988).
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in the materials before this court and argument would not aid
the decisional process.
DISMISSED
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