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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-2106

TAFADZWA NHIRA,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

THOMPSON HOSPITALITY; COMPASS GROUP; MAURICE JENOURE; JILL 

BROWN; DINA ZAIKOUK; DANA MITCHELL; DAN KELLY; ABDELMAJID 

ZAGHARI,

Defendants – Appellees,

and

MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY; BOWIE STATE; TODD BURGE; NANCY 

WEDINER; MICHAEL AMOS; ALESSANDRIA MCGWIRE,

Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

Maryland, at Baltimore. William M. Nickerson, Senior District 

Judge. (1:14-cv-00676-WMN)

Submitted: February 28, 2017 Decided: March 13, 2017

Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and WYNN, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Tafadzwa Nhira, Appellant Pro Se. Thomas Patrick Dowd, LITTLER 

MENDELSON PC, Washington, D.C., for Appellees

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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Tafadzwa Nhira appeals the district court’s order granting 

summary judgment to Defendants on his whistleblower claim under 

the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1514A (2012), and his claims 

of retaliation, failure to promote, discriminatory discharge, 

and discriminatory compensation, in violation of Title VII of 

the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 

2000e–17 (2012). We have reviewed the record and find no 

reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated 

by the district court.* Nhira v. Thompson Hospitality, No. 1:14-

cv-00676-WMN (D. Md. Sept. 8, 2016). 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.

AFFIRMED

 * To the extent that Nhira’s informal brief challenges the 

district court’s dismissal of Morgan State University and Bowie 

State University, Nhira did not identify the district court’s 

dismissal orders in his notice of appeal, and consequently, we 

lack jurisdiction to consider those orders. See Fed. R. App. P. 

3(c)(1)(B); Jackson v. Lightsey, 775 F.3d 170, 176-77 (4th Cir. 

2014). Furthermore, insofar as Nhira requests remand because 

the district court decided Defendants’ motion for summary 

judgment before Defendants answered Nhira’s requests for 

admissions, we discern no abuse of discretion by the district 

court. See United States ex rel. Becker v. Westinghouse 

Savannah River Co., 305 F.3d 284, 290 (4th Cir. 2002).

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