UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 01-7409
ARTHUR LEWIS MCELROY,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
versus
SERGEANT STANLEY; OFFICER MCLAMB; MARTIN
MCDADE; ROBERT LEWIS; CHAPLIN BALCOMB; CHAPLIN
HAYNES; CORRECTIONAL OFFICER HERBERLIEN; JOHN
DOE,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern Dis-
trict of North Carolina, at Raleigh. W. Earl Britt, Senior District
Judge. (CA-98-877-5-CT-BR)
Submitted: December 7, 2001 Decided: December 20, 2001
Before WILKINS, LUTTIG, and KING, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Arthur Lewis McElroy, Appellant Pro Se. John Payne Scherer, II,
Assistant Attorney General, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Arthur Lewis McElroy appeals the district court’s order deny-
ing relief on his 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (West Supp. 2001) complaint.
We have reviewed the record and the district court’s opinion and
find no reversible error. Accordingly, we deny Appellant’s motion
for appointment of appellate counsel and affirm substantially on
the reasoning of the district court.* See McElroy v. Stanley, No.
CA-98-877-5-CT-BR (E.D.N.C. July 24, 2001). 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
*
Assuming without deciding that the Religious Land Use and
Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, Pub. L. No. 106-274, 114
Stat. 803 (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc) may be applied retro-
actively to Appellant’s case, we find the Act affords him no basis
for relief.
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