Margaret Reaves v. Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 5:16-cv-00186-FL Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [1000026501]. Mailed to: appellant. [16-2017]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-2017

MARGARET REAVES,
Plaintiff – Appellant,
v.
OCWEN LOAN SERVICING LLC; LITTON LOAN SERVICING; POPULAR
FINANCIAL; THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,
Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.
Louise W. Flanagan,
District Judge. (5:16-cv-00186-FL)

Submitted:

February 16, 2017

Before GREGORY, Chief Judge,
HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Decided:

DUNCAN,

February 21, 2017

Circuit

Judge,

and

Dismissed and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Margaret Reaves, Appellant Pro Se. Brian Michael Rowlson,
BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina, for
Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Margaret Reaves seeks to appeal the district court’s order
dismissing

her

civil

complaint.

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,

545-47

(1949).

Because

the

deficiencies identified by the district court may be remedied by
the filing of an amended complaint, we conclude that the order
Reaves

seeks

to

appeal

is

neither

a

final

appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

order

nor

an

Goode v. Cent.

Va. Legal Aid Soc’y, Inc., 807 F.3d 619, 623 (4th Cir. 2015);
Domino Sugar Corp. v. Sugar Workers Local Union 392, 10 F.3d
1064, 1066-67 (4th Cir. 1993).
Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction
and remand the case to the district court with instructions to
allow Reaves to file an amended complaint.
oral

argument

adequately

because

presented

in

the
the

facts

and

materials

legal
before

We dispense with
contentions
this

court

are
and

argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED AND REMANDED

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