Robert Payne v. Michelle Lee

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 1:15-cv-01268-CMH-IDD. Copies to all parties and the district court. [1000026777]. [16-2100]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-2100

ROBERT THOMAS PAYNE,
Plaintiff – Appellant,
v.
MICHELLE
K.
LEE,
Under
Secretary
of
Commerce
for
Intellectual Property and Director of the United States
Patent and Trademark Office; RINALDI RADA, United States
Patent and Trademark Office; SARAH MONFELDT, United States
Patent and Trademark Office; TOM HAMMOND, United States
Patent and Trademark Office; STEPHEN JOHNSON, United States
Patent and Trademark Office; KATHY MATECKI, United States
Patent and Trademark Office; ANNE MENDEZ, United States
Patent and Trademark Office; CAPTAIN EVERETTE BRADFORD,
United States Patent and Trademark Office; PATROL VICTOR
HARVEY, United States Patent and Trademark Office; KELLY
HENSLEY, United States Patent and Trademark Office; KEVIN
LEWIS, United States Patent and Trademark Office; JOE
BURNS,
United
States
Patent
and
Trademark
Office;
ALEXANDRIA POLICE AGENTS, Police Department, Alexandria
Virginia; HOMELAND SECURITY AGENTS, Homeland Security;
INSPECTOR GENERAL, Department of Commerce; JAMES PAYNE,
United States Patent and Trademark Office; SARAH HARRIS,
United States Patent and Trademark Office; FREDERICK
STECKLER, United States Patent and Trademark Office;
DOMINICK MURACCO, Department of Commerce, OIG; CECELIA
WILSON, United States Patent and Trademark Office; KAREN W.
KARLINCHAK, United States Patent and Trademark Office; MARK
KRIEGER, Department of Commerce, OIG; JENNIFER R. SEIFERT,
United States Patent and Trademark Office; MARIA CAMPO,
United States Patent and Trademark Office; SHARREIFF NASID,
United States Patent and Trademark Office; BRIAN CEDAR,
United States Patent and Trademark Office; ANDREW FAILE,
United States Patent and Trademark Office; AGENT COREY
JOHNSON, Home Land Security,
Defendants - Appellees.

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria.
Claude M. Hilton, Senior
District Judge. (1:15-cv-01268-CMH-IDD)

Submitted:

February 16, 2017

Decided:

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

DUNCAN,

February 21, 2017

Circuit

Judge,

and

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Robert Thomas Payne, Appellant Pro Se. Dennis Carl Barghaan,
Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for
Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Robert

Thomas

Payne

appeals

the

district

court’s

order

denying relief on his complaint filed pursuant to Bivens v. Six
Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388
(1971).
error.

We have reviewed the record and find no reversible
Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the

district court.

Payne v. Lee, No. 1:15-cv-01268-CMH-IDD (E.D.

Va. July 25, 2016).
facts

and

materials

legal
before

We dispense with oral argument because the

contentions

are

adequately

this

and

argument

court

presented

would

not

in

the

aid

the

decisional process.

AFFIRMED

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