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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-1662

TORNELLO FONTAINE PIERCE EL BEY,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

ROY COOPER; PAT MCCRORY; STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA; JAMES 

ALLEN JOINES; SHERIFF WILLIAM T. SCHATZMAN; BJ BARNS, a/k/a 

Eschol Edward Barnes, Jr.; NANCY VAUGHAN,

 Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western 

District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Frank D. Whitney, 

Chief District Judge. (3:15-cv-00539-FDW-DCK)

Submitted: October 18, 2016 Decided: October 20, 2016

Before WILKINSON, KING, and FLOYD, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Tornello Fontaine Pierce El Bey, Appellant Pro Se. Grady L. 

Balentine, Jr., Special Deputy Attorney General, Raleigh, North 

Carolina; James R. Morgan, Jr., WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE, 

PLLC, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Lonnie Glenn Albright, III, 

FORSYTH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, James Demarest Secor, III, 

James Anthony Clark, Associate General Counsel, Polly D. 

Sizemore, CITY OF GREENSBORO LEGAL DEPARTMENT, Greensboro, North 

Carolina, for Appellees.

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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Tornello Fontaine Pierce El Bey seeks to appeal the 

district court’s order dismissing his complaint without 

prejudice. 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-

56 (1949). We conclude that the order Pierce El Bey seeks to 

appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory 

or collateral order. See Goode v. Cent. Va. Legal Aid Soc’y, 

Inc., 807 F.3d 619, 623-24, 629-30 (4th Cir. 2015). 

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction, and 

remand to the district court with instructions to allow Pierce 

El Bey to file an amended complaint. 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 AND REMANDED

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