Josephat Mua v. The O'Neal Law Firm, LLP

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Motion disposition in opinion--granting Motion to exceed length limitations [999894921-2]; granting Motion to supplement [999896561-2]; granting Motion to amend/correct [999894930-2] Originating case number: 8:14-cv-02334-PJM Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999930668]. Mailed to: J Mua. [16-1506]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-1506

JOSEPHAT MUA,
Plaintiff – Appellant,
v.
THE O’NEAL LAW FIRM, LLP; THATCHER LAW FIRM; SULLIVAN,
TALBOTT & BATT; BRYAN CHAPMAN; RMA & ASSOCIATES, LLC;
ROBERT
E.
CAPPELL;
HARDNETT
&
ASSOCIATES;
BRADFORD
ASSOCIATES; PESSIN KATZ LAW, P.A.; MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION
ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATION OF SUPERVISORY & ADMINISTRATIVE
SCHOOL; MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; C. SUKARI
HARDNETT, LLC.,
Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Greenbelt.
Peter J. Messitte, Senior District
Judge. (8:14-cv-02334-PJM)

Submitted:

September 13, 2016

Decided:

September 16, 2016

Before TRAXLER, AGEE, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Josephat Mua, Appellant Pro Se. Callyson Taylor Grove, Jodi V.
Terranova, WILSON ELSER, Washington, D.C.; Robert Judah Baror,
Lindsay A. Freedman, Linda Hitt Thatcher, THATCHER LAW FIRM,
Greenbelt, Maryland; David George Mulquin, BRAULT & GRAHAM, LLC,
Rockville, Maryland; Bryan Chapman, Washington, D.C.; Raouf
Muhammad Abdullah, ABDULLAH & ASSOCIATES LLC, Upper Marlboro,

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Maryland; Robert Elmer Cappell, ROBERT CAPPELL ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bowie, Maryland; Andrew G. Scott, Leslie Robert Stellman, PESSIN
KATZ LAW, P.A., Towson, Maryland; Christopher Mark Feldenzer,
SEROTTE ROCKMAN & WESTCOTT, PA, Baltimore, Maryland; Nathaniel
David Johnson, LAW OFFICE OF NATHANIEL D. JOHNSON, Waldorf,
Maryland; William H. Fields, OFFICE OF THE ATTONEY GENERAL,
Baltimore, Maryland; Charlene Sukari Hardnett, Silver Spring,
Maryland, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Josephat Mua appeals the district court’s order dismissing
his civil complaint against several Defendants.
confine
brief.

our

review

to

the

issues

See 4th Cir. R. 34(b).

raised

in

On appeal, we
the

Appellant’s

Because Mua’s informal briefs do

not challenge the bases for the district court’s disposition,
Mua

has

order.

forfeited

appellate

review

of

the

district

court’s

See Williams v. Giant Food Inc., 370 F.3d 423, 430 n.4

(4th Cir. 2004).

Accordingly, although we grant Mua’s motions

to exceed the length limitations for his informal brief, for
leave to amend/correct his informal brief, and to supplement his
amended

brief,

dismissal.

we

affirm

the

district

court’s

order

of

Mua v. The O’Neal Law Firm, LLP, No. 8:14-cv-02334-

PJM (D. Md. Mar. 31, 2016).

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.
AFFIRMED

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