Edmund Awah v. TransUnion

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 1:15-cv-02042-ELH Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999828574]. Mailed to: E. Awah. [15-2544]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-2544

EDMUND AWAH,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
TRANSUNION; EQUIFAX; EXPERIAN,
Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore.
Ellen L. Hollander, District Judge.
(1:15-cv-02042-ELH)

Submitted:

May 18, 2016

Decided:

May 20, 2016

Before SHEDD, DIAZ, and HARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Edmund K. Awah, Appellant Pro Se.
Nathan Daniel Adler,
NEUBERGER, QUINN, GIELEN, RUBIN & GIBBER, PA, Baltimore,
Maryland; Sandy David Baron, SHULMAN, ROGERS, GANDAL, PORDY &
ECKER, PA, Potomac, Maryland, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Edmund

Awah

seeks

to

appeal

the

district

court’s

order

denying his motion to remand his civil case back to state court
after it was removed to federal court.

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., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949).
to

appeal

is

interlocutory

neither

or

a

final

collateral

The order Awah seeks

order

order.

See

nor

an

appealable

Caterpillar

Inc.

v.

Lewis, 519 U.S. 61, 74 (1996) (noting that an order denying a
motion

to

remand,

standing

alone,

is

not

final

order).

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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