Burl Howell v. US

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 5:14-cv-00898-F Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999638009]. Mailed to: Burl Howell. [15-1759]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-1759

BURL ANDERSON HOWELL,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Defendant - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.
James C. Fox, Senior
District Judge. (5:14-cv-00898-F)

Submitted:

August 4, 2015

Decided:

August 11, 2015

Before WILKINSON, DUNCAN, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Burl Anderson Howell, Appellant Pro Se.
Kimberly Ann Moore,
OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh, North Carolina,
for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Burl Anderson Howell seeks to appeal the district court’s
order

denying

without

prejudice

as

premature

his

leave to file a motion for summary judgment.

motion

for

This court 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

Corp.,

Howell

seeks

to

337

U.S.

appeal

is

541,

545-46

neither

a

(1949).
final

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

The

order

order

nor

an

Accordingly, we
We dispense with
contentions
this

court

are
and

argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED

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