UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 09-6384
NATHANIEL V. LARRIMORE,
Petitioner - Appellant,
v.
GENE M. JOHNSON,
Respondent - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria. Claude M. Hilton, Senior
District Judge. (1:08-cv-00395-CMH-TCB)
Submitted: October 22, 2009 Decided: November 9, 2009
Before KING and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Nathaniel V. Larrimore, Appellant Pro Se.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Nathaniel V. Larrimore seeks to appeal the district
court’s order dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2006) petition
without prejudice for failure to pay the filing fee. We dismiss
the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the notice of appeal
was not timely filed.
In civil cases, parties are accorded thirty days after
the entry of the district court’s final judgment or order to
note an appeal, Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), unless the district
court extends the appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5),
or reopens the appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6). A
judgment or order is entered under Rule 4(a) when it is either
set forth in a separate document, as required by Fed. R. Civ. P.
58(a), and entered into the district court’s docket, or 150 days
have passed from the entry of the judgment or order. Fed. R.
App. P. 4(a)(7) (defining entry in civil cases). “[T]he timely
filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional
requirement.” Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).
The district court entered its order dismissing the
§ 2254 petition on July 21, 2008. However, because the court
did not prepare and enter its judgment on a separate document,
the appeal period began to run 150 days thereafter, or on
December 18, 2008. The notice of appeal was filed on March 3,
2009. Because Larrimore failed to file a timely notice of
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appeal or to obtain an extension or reopening of the appeal
period, we dismiss the appeal. 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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