McKinnedy v. Reynolds

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 08-8499 WILLIAM CLAYTON MCKINNEDY, III, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. CECIL REYNOLDS, Warden at Kershaw Correctional Institution; ROBERT WARD, a/k/a Bob Ward; JON E. OZMINT; MARK SANFORD; HENRY DARGAN MCMASTER; BARTON VINCENT; MARY COLEMAN; SANDRA BOWIE; A. HARDIN; A. SELLERS; JEROME ARMSTRONG; ROBINSON; JAMES WAKELEY; BECKWITH; JAMES BAYTES; ROBERT HUGGINS, Bob Huggins; DERWIN NEISMAN; JERRY WASHINGTON; T. A. SMITH; PRICE; MR. SEWARD; DUBOSE; CLAUDER; DAVID M. TATARSKY; ROBERT JACOBS, a/k/a Bob Jacobs; OSCAR FAULKENBERRY; CAPTAIN THOMAS, Kershaw Correctional Institution; DANIEL J. MURPHY, Inspector General of South Carolina Department of Corrections; LINDA J. MARTIN, OPNS, Secretary, General Counsel, SCDC’s Headquarters; PATTERSON, SCDC’s General Counsel Office, Defendants – Appellees, and MIKE FAIR; JOHN D. MCLEOD; MARVIN F. KITTRELL; JOHN DOE, Defendants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Greenville. Henry M. Herlong, Jr., Senior District Judge. (6:08-cv-03169-HMH-WMC) Submitted: June 18, 2009 Decided: June 22, 2009 Before NIEMEYER, GREGORY, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. William Clayton McKinnedy, III, Appellant Pro Se. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 2 PER CURIAM: William Clayton McKinnedy, III, seeks to appeal two orders: (1) the magistrate judge’s order denying McKinnedy’s motion for reconsideration of an earlier order denying his motion for recusal and (2) the district court’s order adopting the magistrate judge’s recommendation and dismissing without prejudice McKinnedy’s claims against some but not all defendants. This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2006), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (2006); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949). The orders McKinnedy seeks to appeal are neither final orders nor appealable interlocutory or collateral orders. Accordingly, we 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 3