UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 96-6753
DANNY LAMONT YARBOROUGH,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
versus
JOSEPH LOFTON; RALPH S. BRITT; WILLIAM
JENNETTE; S. D. STEWART; SERGEANT WOOTEN,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern Dis-
trict of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Malcolm J. Howard, District
Judge. (CA-95-707-5-H)
Submitted: September 20, 1996 Decided: October 2, 1996
Before NIEMEYER, HAMILTON, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Danny Lamont Yarborough, Appellant Pro Se. William Dennis Worley,
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Raleigh, North Carolina, for
Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Appellant appeals the district court's order affirming the
magistrate judge's order denying Appellant's motion for discovery.
We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the order is
not appealable. This court may exercise jurisdiction only over
final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (1994), and certain interlocutory
and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (1994); Fed. R. Civ. P.
54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949).
The order here appealed is neither a final order nor an appealable
interlocutory or collateral order.
We dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. 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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