Linda Bennett v. OPM

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 1:14-cv-00137-JAB-JLW. Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999587598]. Mailed to: Linda Bennett. [15-1083]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-1083

LINDA M. BENNETT, Executrix for the Estate of Elizabeth H.
Maynard and on behalf of herself and others similarly
situated,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (OPM); OFFICE OF FEDERAL
EMPLOYEE’S GROUP LIFE INSURANCE (OFEGLI); METROPOLITAN LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY (METLIFE),
Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. James A. Beaty, Jr.,
Senior District Judge. (1:14-cv-00137-JAB-JLW)

Submitted:

May 19, 2015

Decided: May 21, 2015

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

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Linda M. Bennett, Appellant Pro Se.
Joan Brodish Binkley,
Assistant United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina;
Elizabeth J. Bondurant, WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE, PLLC,
Atlanta, Georgia; Katherine Thompson Lange, WOMBLE CARLYLE
SANDRIDGE
&
RICE,
PLLC,
Charlotte,
North
Carolina,
for
Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Linda M. Bennett seeks to appeal the district court’s order
adopting the magistrate judge’s recommendation and granting on
sovereign

immunity

Defendant

Office

grounds
of

the

Personnel

motion

to

dismiss

Management.

This

filed
court

by
may

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

and

certain

interlocutory

and

collateral

orders,

28

U.S.C. § 1292 (2012); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial
Indus.

Loan

Bennett

Corp.,

seeks

to

337

U.S.

appeal

is

541,

545-46

neither

a

(1949).
final

appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

The

order

order

nor

an

See Catlin v.

United States, 324 U.S. 229, 233 (1945); Baird v. Palmer, 114
F.3d 39, 42 (4th Cir. 1997); Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa
Indians

v.

Michigan,

5

F.3d

147,

150

(6th

Cir.

1993).

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
dispense

with

contentions

are

oral

argument

adequately

because

presented

in

the
the

facts

We

and

legal

materials

before

this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

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