UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 99-1705
S. REBECCA DACHMAN,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
versus
DONNA A. SHALALA, Department of Health and
Human Services,
Defendant - Appellee,
and
KAREN D. WEISS,
Party-in-interest.
MARGARET MITRANE, M.D.,
Movant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Greenbelt. Andre M. Davis, District Judge. (CA-96-
873-AMD)
Submitted: September 9, 1999 Decided: September 14, 1999
Before ERVIN, WILKINS, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
S. Rebecca Dachman, Appellant Pro Se. Lynne Ann Battaglia, United
States Attorney, George Levi Russell, III, OFFICE OF THE UNITED
STATES ATTORNEY, Baltimore, Maryland; Barry Frederick Smith, UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, Washington, D.C., for
Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
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PER CURIAM:
S. Rebecca Dachman appeals from a district court order grant-
ing the Defendant summary judgment as to all of Dachman’s employ-
ment discrimination claims except Dachman’s claim of discriminatory
discharge. 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. In light of the con-
cern Dachman expresses in her informal brief regarding waiver of
her right to appeal, we note that our dismissal is without preju-
dice. 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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