William Watts, II v. United State

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 8:14-cv-02659-TMC-JDA. Copies to all parties and the district court. [999513966]. Mailed to: Appellant. [14-7542]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-7542

WILLIAM T. WATTS, II,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
UNITED STATES; FBI; UNKNOWN FBI AGENTS,
Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Anderson.
Timothy M. Cain, District Judge.
(8:14-cv-02659-TMC-JDA)

Submitted:

January 15, 2015

Decided:

January 21, 2015

Before WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior
Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

William T. Watts, II, Appellant Pro Se. Barbara Murcier Bowens,
Assistant United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for
Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
William T. Watts, II, seeks to appeal the district
court’s

order

adopting

the

recommendation

of

the

magistrate

judge and dismissing some but not all of his claims in an action
filed pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed.
Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), and the Freedom of
Information

Act,

5

U.S.C.

§§ 551-52

(2012).

This

court

may

exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291
(2012),

and

28 U.S.C.

certain

§ 1292

interlocutory

(2012);

Fed.

R.

and
Civ.

collateral
P.

54(b);

orders.
Cohen

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

v.
The

order Watts 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
this

court

are
and

argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

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