Homesite Insurance Company v. Kyle Raley

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 1:14-cv-00199-CMH-TCB. Copies to all parties and the district court. [999613067]. [14-2207]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-2207

HOMESITE INSURANCE COMPANY,
Plaintiff – Appellee,
v.
KYLE RALEY,
Defendant – Appellant,
and
PATRICK STAPLETON; MIKAL STAPLETON,
Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria.
Claude M. Hilton, Senior
District Judge. (1:14-cv-00199-CMH-TCB)

Submitted:

June 19, 2015

Decided:

July 1, 2015

Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Mark T. Foley, SASSCER, CLAGETT & BUCHER, Upper Marlboro,
Maryland, for Appellant. Robert M. Hardy, JORDAN COYNE LLP,
Fairfax, Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Kyle

Raley

seeks

to

appeal

the

district

court’s

order

granting default judgment against his co-defendants.

This court

may

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exercise

jurisdiction

only

over

final

orders,

U.S.C.

§ 1291 (2012), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders,
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U.S.C.

§ 1292

(2012);

Fed.

R.

Civ.

P.

54(b);

Cohen

Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949).

v.
The

order Raley seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an
appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

The case is still

ongoing

no

against

Raley,

as

there

has

been

order

entered

dismissing him from the suit or entering judgment for or against
him.

Accordingly,

jurisdiction.

we

dismiss

the

appeal

for

lack

of

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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