UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 06-7332
BRIAN WILLIAM SCOTT, a/k/a Brian W. Scott,
Petitioner - Appellant,
versus
E. RICHARD BAZZLE, Warden of Perry
Correctional Institution; HENRY MCMASTER,
Attorney General for South Carolina,
Respondents - Appellees.
No. 06-7411
BRIAN WILLIAM SCOTT, a/k/a Brian W. Scott,
Petitioner - Appellant,
versus
E. RICHARD BAZZLE, Warden of Perry
Correctional Institution; HENRY MCMASTER,
Attorney General for South Carolina,
Respondents - Appellees.
Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Anderson. G. Ross Anderson, Jr., District
Judge. (8:05-cv-02690-GRA)
Submitted: December 21, 2006 Decided: January 4, 2007
Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and KING, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Brian William Scott, Appellant Pro Se. Donald John Zelenka,
Derrick K. McFarland, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF SOUTH
CAROLINA, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:
Brian William Scott seeks to appeal the district court’s
orders finding Scott’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000) petition timely and
remanding to the magistrate judge to consider the merits of the
petition (No. 06-7332), and denying Scott’s motions to compel
discovery (No. 06-7411). This court may exercise jurisdiction only
over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2000), and certain
interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (2000); Fed.
R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S.
541 (1949). The orders Scott seeks to appeal are neither final
orders nor appealable interlocutory or collateral orders.
Accordingly, we dismiss the appeals for lack of jurisdiction. 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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