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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 08-6080

ALLAN A. PETERSON,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

BRIAN PRICE; MICHELLE SPEARS; DOMINIC GUTIERREZ; SUSAN

MCCLINTOCK; MAVIS HOLYFIELD,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern

District of West Virginia, at Wheeling. Frederick P. Stamp, Jr.,

Senior District Judge. (5:06-cv-00106-FPS-JSK)

Submitted: March 27, 2008 Decided: April 4, 2008

Before TRAXLER and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior

Circuit Judge.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Allan A. Peterson, Appellant Pro Se. Betsy S. Jividen, Assistant

United States Attorney, Wheeling, West Virginia, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Allan A. Peterson seeks to appeal the district court’s

order adopting the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation and

dismissing his complaint under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents

of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). The notice of

appeal was received in this court shortly after expiration of the

sixty-day appeal period. Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(B). Because

Peterson is incarcerated, the notice is considered filed as of the

date it was properly delivered to prison officials for mailing to

the court. Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266

(1988). The record does not reveal when Peterson gave the notice

of appeal to prison officials for mailing. Accordingly, we remand

the case for the limited purpose of allowing the district court to

obtain this information from the parties and to determine whether

the filing was timely under Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1) and Houston v.

Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988). The record, as supplemented, will then

be returned to this court for further consideration.

REMANDED

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