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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-6221

MARIE ASSA’AD-FALTAS, MD, MPH,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

SOUTH CAROLINA, THE STATE OF; COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA, THE 

CITY OF, hereinafter “the City”,

Respondents - Appellees.

No. 15-6222

MARIE THERESE ASSA’AD-FALTAS, MD, MPH,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

SOUTH CAROLINA, THE STATE OF; COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA, THE 

CITY OF, hereinafter “the City”,

Respondents - Appellees.

No. 15-6223

MARIE THERESE ASSA’AD-FALTAS, MD, MPH,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

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SOUTH CAROLINA, THE STATE OF; COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA, CITY 

OF, hereinafter “the City”,

Respondents - Appellees.

No. 15-6225

MARIE THERESE ASSA’AD-FALTAS, MD MPH,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

SOUTH CAROLINA, THE STATE OF,

Respondent – Appellee,

and

COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA, THE CITY OF,

Respondent.

No. 15-6236

MARIE ASSA’AD-FALTAS, MD, MPH,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA; THE CITY OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH 

CAROLINA, hereinafter “the City”,

Respondents - Appellees.

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Appeals from the United States District Court for the District 

of South Carolina, at Aiken. Terry L. Wooten, Chief District 

Judge. (1:15-cv-00045-TLW; 1:15-cv-00044-TLW; 1:15-cv-00047-

TLW; 1:14-cv-04811-TLW; 1:15-cv-00046-TLW)

Submitted: October 20, 2015 Decided: October 22, 2015

Before MOTZ, KEENAN, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Marie Therese Assa’ad-Faltas, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

In these consolidated appeals, Marie Therese Assa’ad-Faltas 

seeks to appeal the district court’s orders accepting the 

recommendations of the magistrate judge to deny relief on her 28 

U.S.C. § 2254 (2012) petitions. Assa’ad-Faltas has filed an 

application to proceed in forma pauperis, as well as a motion 

for appointment of counsel, in each appeal.

The orders Assa’ad-Faltas seeks to appeal are not 

appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a 

certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) (2012). 

A certificate of appealability will not issue absent “a 

substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.” 

28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) (2012). When the district court denies 

relief on the merits, a prisoner satisfies this standard by 

demonstrating that reasonable jurists would find that the 

district court’s assessment of the constitutional claims is 

debatable or wrong. Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 

(2000); see Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336-38 (2003). 

When the district court denies relief on procedural grounds, the 

prisoner must demonstrate both that the dispositive procedural 

ruling is debatable, and that the petition states a debatable 

claim of the denial of a constitutional right. Slack, 529 U.S. 

at 484-85. 

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We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that

Assa’ad-Faltas has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, 

we deny her applications to proceed in forma pauperis, deny her 

motions for appointment of counsel, deny a certificate of 

appealability, and dismiss the appeals. 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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