UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 07-6480
JOHN WAYNE LUNSFORD,
Petitioner - Appellant,
versus
JOHN J. LAMANNA, Warden of FCI-Edgefield;
UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION,
Respondents - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Beaufort. Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., Chief
District Judge. (9:06-cv-02395-JFA)
Submitted: September 26, 2007 Decided: October 4, 2007
Before MOTZ and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
John Wayne Lunsford, Appellant Pro Se. Barbara Murcier Bowens,
OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Columbia, South Carolina, for
Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
John Wayne Lunsford seeks to challenge on appeal the
authority of a United States magistrate judge to conduct a motion
hearing. The underlying case in which the hearing was scheduled
remains pending in the district court.
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
proceeding Lunsford seeks to challenge reflects neither a final
order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.
Accordingly, we deny Lunsford’s motion for appointment of counsel
and dismiss the appeal 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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