UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 11-1553
STEPHEN THOMAS YELVERTON,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
and
WENDELL W. WEBSTER, in his capacity as Chapter 7 Trustee in
Bankruptcy for Steven Thomas Yelverton,
Plaintiff,
v.
YELVERTON FARMS, LTD; PHYLLIS EDMUNDSON; CHARLES EDMUNDSON;
DEBORAH MARM,
Defendants – Appellees,
and
WADE H. ATKINSON, JR.,
Intervenor.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Louise W. Flanagan,
District Judge. (5:09-cv-00331-FL)
Submitted: November 15, 2011 Decided: November 17, 2011
Before NIEMEYER and KEENAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Stephen Thomas Yelverton, Appellant Pro Se. Ronald L. Gibson,
ERWIN & ELEAZER, PA, Charlotte, North Carolina; Natalie S.
Walker, WEBSTER, FREDERICKSON & BRACKSHAW, Washington, D.C.;
John C. Bircher, III, WHITE & ALLEN, PA, New Bern, North
Carolina; John Pierce Marshall, Matthew Scott Sullivan, WHITE &
ALLEN, PA, Kinston, North Carolina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:
Stephen Thomas Yelverton seeks to appeal the district
court orders determining that he lacked standing, denying his
motion to amend, substituting the bankruptcy trustee as
plaintiff, and amending the case caption. 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, 545-46 (1949). The orders
Yelverton 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
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