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Nature of Suit Code: 950
Nature of Suit: Constitutionality of State Statutes
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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-2100

EMMA VICTORIA JOHNSON HOWARD,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

VANCE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT.; W. B. LILLEY, Sergeant of the 

Vance County Sheriff's Dept., Individually and in his 

officially capacity; VANCE COUNTY DISTRICT COURT; RAYMOND 

EARL DICKERSON, d/b/a T.L. Perkinson Wrecker Service,

Defendants – Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Louise W. Flanagan, 

District Judge. (5:15-cv-00110-FL)

Submitted: November 19, 2015 Decided: December 7, 2015

Before MOTZ, DUNCAN, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Emma Victoria Howard, Appellant Pro Se. Sonny Sade Haynes, 

WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE, PLLC, Winston-Salem, North 

Carolina, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Emma Victoria Johnson Howard seeks to appeal the district 

court’s order adopting the magistrate judge’s recommendation to 

dismiss Howard’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2012) action in part and to 

allow certain claims to proceed. This court may exercise 

jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2012), 

and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1292 (2012); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. 

Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949). The order Howard seeks 

to appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable 

interlocutory or collateral order. 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 this court and argument would not aid 

the decisional process.

DISMISSED

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