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Parties Involved:
Robert Friend
Appellee
Officer Lindburg
Appellee
Steven E. Tarpley
Appellant

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 10-6155

STEVEN E. TARPLEY,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

LIEUTENANT ROBERT FRIEND, Sergeant; OFFICER LINDBURG, are 

sued in both their individual and official capacities,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

Maryland, at Baltimore. Benson Everett Legg, District Judge. 

(1:08-cv-01240-BEL)

Submitted: July 27, 2010 Decided: August 5, 2010

Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and WILKINSON and KEENAN, Circuit 

Judges.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Steven E. Tarpley, Appellant Pro Se. Glenn William Bell, OFFICE 

OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MARYLAND, Baltimore, Maryland, for 

Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Steven E. Tarpley seeks to appeal the district court’s 

orders denying relief on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2006) complaint 

and subsequent Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion to alter or amend 

the judgment. The notice of appeal was received in the district 

court shortly after expiration of the appeal period. Because

Tarpley 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 Tarpley 

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. The record, as 

supplemented, will then be returned to this court for further 

consideration.

REMANDED

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