UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 98-7478
BARRY F. BRITT,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
versus
MICHAEL MOORE, Director; WILLIAM D. CATOE,
Deputy Director; BOB WALKER; MR. CEPAK, War-
den, BRCI; WHITE, Deputy Director; CAPTAIN
NELSON, Hearing Office, officially and in
their individual capacities,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Greenville. William M. Catoe, Jr., Magistrate
Judge. (CA-98-2550-6-22AK)
Submitted: December 17, 1998 Decided: January 11, 1999
Before WILKINS, NIEMEYER, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Barry F. Britt, Appellant Pro Se. Paul H. Derrick, LIDE, MONT-
GOMERY & POTTS, P.C., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Barry F. Britt appeals from the magistrate judge’s order deny-
ing his motion for appointment of counsel in his action filed under
42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (West Supp. 1998). We dismiss the appeal for
lack of jurisdiction because the order is not appealable. This
court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, see 28
U.S.C. § 1291 (1994), and certain interlocutory and collateral
orders, see 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 inter-
locutory or collateral order.
We therefore deny Britt’s motions for appointment of counsel,
grant Appellees’ motion to dismiss the appeal, and dismiss the ap-
peal as interlocutory. We dispense with oral argument because the
facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the mate-
rials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional
process.
DISMISSED
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