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Parties Involved:
Department of Motor Vehicles
Appellee
Office of the Governor
Appellee
Brandon Williams
Appellant

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 20-1064

BRANDON WILLIAMS,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR; 

COMMISSIONER DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at 

Raleigh. James C. Dever III, District Judge. (5:19-cv-00253-D)

Submitted: March 12, 2020 Decided: March 17, 2020

Before KING, KEENAN, and FLOYD, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Brandon Williams, Appellant Pro Se. Neil Clark Dalton, NORTH CAROLINA 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees. 

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Brandon Williams filed a notice of appeal in the district court, where his civil action 

was pending. Appellees have moved to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction, and 

Williams has responded with a motion for judgment as a matter of law.

Williams failed to identify the order from which he seeks to appeal, in violation of 

Fed. R. App. P. 3(c)(1)(B). When Williams filed his notice of appeal, the only order on 

the docket was the order referring his motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis to the 

magistrate judge. If Williams is seeking to appeal that order or the Clerk’s letter advising 

him to respond to the motion to dismiss, the appeal is interlocutory, and we lack 

jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291, 1292 (2018); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. 

Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949). Otherwise, we lack 

jurisdiction because there was no other order from which Williams could have appealed. 

Accordingly, we deny Williams’ motion for judgment as a matter of law, grant 

Appellees’ motion to dismiss, and dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. 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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