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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UNPUBLISHED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. 15-7707

TIMOTHY GREEN,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

LT. FRANKLIN RICHARDSON, JR.; NURSE PRATT; NURSE 

PRACTITIONER RABON; NURSE FRANKLIN; NURSE MOODY; NURSE KAREN 

COOPER; OFC. THOMPSON, SMU; SGT. PRICE; OFC. CAIN; LT. 

JENKINS; OFC. FARMER; OFC. MICKENS; SGT. DEMAYRIE, SMU; 

NURSE JONES; MEDICAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY, Whom agency is 

contracted with SCDC; HEAD DOCTOR, at Headquarters and 

Staff,

Defendants – Appellees,

and

SCDC; NURSE AND MEDICAL UNIT LEE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION,

Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

South Carolina, at Greenville. Kevin Frank McDonald, Magistrate

Judge; Mary G. Lewis, District Judge. (6:14-cv-02595-MGL)

Submitted: April 21, 2016 Decided: April 25, 2016

Before WILKINSON, KING, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

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Timothy F. Green, Appellant Pro Se. David Cornwell Holler, G. 

Murrell Smith, Jr., LEE ERTER WILSON HOLLER & SMITH, LLC, 

Sumter, South Carolina, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Timothy Green seeks to appeal the district court’s order 

adopting the magistrate judge’s recommendation to grant 

Defendants summary judgment in Green’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2012) 

civil rights action. We dismiss the appeal for lack of 

jurisdiction because the notice of appeal was not timely filed. 

Parties are accorded 30 days after the entry of the 

district court’s final judgment or order to note an appeal, Fed. 

R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), unless the district court extends the 

appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5), or reopens the 

appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6). “[T]he timely 

filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional 

requirement.” Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).

The district court’s final judgment was entered on the 

docket on July 22, 2015. The notice of appeal was filed, at the 

earliest, on October 1, 2015.* Because Green failed to file a 

timely notice of appeal or to obtain an extension or reopening 

of the appeal period, we dismiss the appeal. We dispense with 

oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are 

 * To establish the date of filing, we rely on the date stamp 

on the envelope reflecting the prison mailroom’s receipt of the 

notice of appeal, as this is the earliest date the notice of 

appeal could have been properly delivered to prison officials 

for mailing to the court. Fed. R. App. P. 4(c); Houston v. 

Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988).

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adequately presented in the materials before this court and 

argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

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