UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 02-6753
DUNCAN VICTOR AYEMERE IDOKOGI,
Petitioner - Appellant,
versus
JOHN ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United
States; JOHN JOSEPH CURRAN, JR., Maryland
State Attorney General; CHARLES FELTS, Warden;
BENEDICT I. FERRO, Baltimore INS District
Director; CHRISTINE G. DAVIS, New Orleans INS
District Director; U.S. IMMIGRATION &
NATURALIZATION SERVICE,
Respondents - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore. Benson E. Legg, District Judge. (CA-02-
718-L)
Submitted: September 5, 2002 Decided: September 10, 2002
Before MOTZ, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Duncan Victor Ayemere Idokogi, Appellant Pro Se.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Duncan Victor Ayemere Idokogi seeks to appeal the district
court’s orders transferring his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000) petition,
which the district court construed as a 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (2000)
petition, to the United States District Court for the Western
District of Louisiana, and denying reconsideration. 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. See Technosteel, L.L.C. v. Beers
Constr. Co., 271 F.3d 151, 153-54 & n.2 (4th Cir. 2001).
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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