UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 99-7372
FRANKLIN E. CARTER,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
versus
GEORGE TRENT; WILLIAM K. DAVIS; CINDY LARGENT;
FRANCIS HENDERSON, Doctor; WEXFORD HEALTH
SOURCES, INCORPORATED; SUBHASH GAJENDRAGADKAR,
Doctor; WILLIAM KINCAID; STEVEN BLACK; JOHN
DOE; JANE DOE, Nurses; JOHN DOE; JANE DOE,
Counselors; HOWARD PAINTER; TRESA WAID; SANDY
JAYNES; ESSA ABDULLA; ROY WHITE; CORRECTIONAL
MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern Dis-
trict of West Virginia, at Beckley. David A. Faber, District Judge.
(CA-98-146-5)
Submitted: February 22, 2000 Decided: March 14, 2000
Before MURNAGHAN, TRAXLER, and KING, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Franklin E. Carter, Appellant Pro Se. Leslie K. Kiser, WEST VIR-
GINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Charleston, West Virginia; Thomas
John Hurney, Jr., Karen M.R. Weber, JACKSON & KELLY, Charleston,
West Virginia; David Ernest Boelzner, WRIGHT ROBINSON, OSTHIMER &
TATUM, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
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PER CURIAM:
Franklin E. Carter appeals district court’s order adopting the
reports and recommendations of the magistrate judge and dismissing
six of the eighteen Defendants named in this action under 42
U.S.C.A. § 1983 (West Supp. 1999). We dismiss the appeal for lack
of jurisdiction because the order is not appealable. This court
may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291
(1994), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C.
§ 1292 (1994); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus.
Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949). The order here appealed is
neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral
order.
We dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. 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.
DISMISSED
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