Mills v. Kavanagh

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 99-7262 ALBERT CURTIS MILLS, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus JACK KAVANAGH; WILLIAM LEWIS; FRANCINE MCNEIL COOK; OFFICER PARKER; WANDA PITMAN; OFFICER LAWRENCE; OFFICER WYNN; OFFICER HARRIS; OF- FICER ALEXANDER; ROBERT SANDERS; JAKE SUTTON; PHILLIP COLEMAN; TIMOTHY WOODRUM; SERGEANT CROWDER; PAUL SARBENG; SERGEANT COTTMAN; JAMES A. REVELL; DARLENE GOODWIN; SERGEANT NZEADI- GHIBE; SERGEANT O'NEIL; LIEUTENANT WISE; OFFI- CER DALY; SERGEANT STATEN; OFFICER GAITHER; OFFICER QUEEN, Defendants - Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt. Deborah K. Chasanow, District Judge. (CA- 98-3961-DKC) Submitted: February 24, 2000 Decided: March 1, 2000 Before MOTZ and KING, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed in part and dismissed in part by unpublished per curiam opinion. Albert Curtis Mills, Appellant Pro Se. John Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, Gloria Wilson Shelton, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MARYLAND, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c). 2 PER CURIAM: Albert Curtis Mills appeals the district court’s orders denying his motions for preliminary injunctions.1 We have reviewed the record and the district court’s opinion and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm on the reasoning of the district court. See Mills v. Kavanagh, No. CA-98-3961-DKC (D. Md. Aug. 10 & 26, 1999).2 We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED IN PART; DISMISSED IN PART 1 He also attempts to appeal his unanswered opposition to Defendants’ motion for summary judgment. We dismiss this portion of the appeal as interlocutory. 2 Although the district court’s orders are marked as “filed” on August 4 and 25, 1999, the district court’s records show that they were entered on the docket sheet on August 10 & 26, 1999. Pursuant to Rules 58 and 79(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, it is the date the order was entered on the docket sheet that we take as the effective date of the district court’s decision. See Wilson v. Murray, 806 F.2d 1232, 1234-35 (4th Cir. 1986). 3