UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 02-1617
RICHARD E. FOSTER,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
versus
CITY OF GREENVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT; CHIEF
W. T. (TOMMY) MCDOWELL, Fire Marshall; L. H.
GODFREY, Assistant Fire Marshall; R. A. COOK;
KENNY V. CROSBY, Director of Human Resources,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Greenville. Margaret B. Seymour, District Judge.
(CA-01-4824)
Submitted: July 25, 2002 Decided: July 31, 2002
Before WILKINS, MOTZ, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Richard E. Foster, Appellant Pro Se. Deborah Casey Brown, GALLIVAN,
WHITE & BOYD, P.A., Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Richard E. Foster appeals the district court’s order
dismissing individual defendants from his employment discrimination
action. 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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