UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 15-7427
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Petitioner - Appellee,
v.
JAMES DOW VANDIVERE,
Respondent - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. James E. Gates,
Magistrate Judge. (5:15-hc-02017-D)
Submitted: November 19, 2015 Decided: November 24, 2015
Before NIEMEYER, KING, and HARRIS, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
James Dow Vandivere, Appellant Pro Se. G. Norman Acker, III,
Rudolf A. Renfer, Jr., Assistant United States Attorneys, Robert
J. Dodson, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Michael
Gordon James, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh,
North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
James Dow Vandivere seeks to appeal the district court’s
denial of his pro se motion for summary judgment in the civil
commitment proceedings against him. The Government has moved to
dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. This court may
exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291
(2012), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28
U.S.C. § 1292 (2012); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial
Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949). The order
Vandivere seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an
appealable interlocutory or collateral order. Accordingly, we
grant the Government’s motion 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 this court and argument would not aid the decisional
process.
DISMISSED
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