UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 98-7044
TAHRIM SUPREME C. JIHAD,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
versus
VAUGHN JACKSON; ANNIE ASKINS; DOCTOR BOULWARE;
LAURIE E. BESSINGER; THOMAS MCCANTS; WILLIAM
D. CATOE; in their individual and official
capacities,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Charleston. Robert S. Carr, Magistrate Judge.
(CA-97-3852-2-22AJ)
Submitted: November 19, 1998 Decided: December 2, 1998
Before HAMILTON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Tahrim Supreme C. Jihad, Appellant Pro Se. Andrew Frederick Linde-
mann, DAVIDSON, MORRISON & LINDEMANN, P.A., Columbia, South Caro-
lina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Tahrim Supreme C. Jihad appeals an order of the magistrate
judge denying Jihad’s motion for stay of proceedings and granting
Defendants’ motion for reconsideration of a discovery order. 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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