Shaifer v. State of MD

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 00-6063 KEITH SHAIFER, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus THE STATE OF MARYLAND; WILLIAM SIZER, JR., Warden; DOCTOR JOHANNES; DOCTOR SOAR; DOCTOR REEVES; URIEL VELANDIA, Doctor; PATRICIA WRIGHT, M.D.; CAPTAIN DAWSON; JOHN SCHMITT, Security Chief; LARRY EATON, Lieutenant; DOC- TOR MILLER, Defendants - Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Marvin J. Garbis, District Judge. (CA-99- 1037-MJG) Submitted: June 13, 2000 Decided: August 10, 2000 Before WILKINS, WILLIAMS, and KING, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Keith Shaifer, Appellant Pro Se. John Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Philip Melton Andrews, Michael Evan Blumenfeld, KRAMON & GRAHAM, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c). PER CURIAM: Keith Shaifer appeals the district court’s order denying re- lief on his 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (West Supp. 2000) complaint. 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 Shaifer v. Maryland, No. CA-99-1037-MJG (D. Md. Dec. 3, 1999).* We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the mate- rials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED * Although the district court’s order is marked as “filed” on December 2, 1999, the court’s records show that it was entered on the docket sheet on December 3, 1999. 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 Fed. R. Civ. P. 58 and 79(a); Wilson v. Murray, 806 F.2d 1232, 1234-35 (4th Cir. 1986). 2