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Parties Involved:
Kone Incorporated
Appellee
Carl Thomas Sturdivant
Appellant

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 10-1172

CARL THOMAS STURDIVANT,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

KONE INCORPORATED,

Defendant - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western 

District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Robert J. 

Conrad, Jr., Chief District Judge. (3:09-cv-00224—RJC-DSC)

Submitted: March 29, 2010 Decided: April 12, 2010

Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Carl Thomas Sturdivant, Charlotte, North Carolina, for 

Appellant. James Michael Honeycutt, FISHER & PHILLIPS, LLP, 

Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Carl Thomas Sturdivant seeks to appeal the district 

court’s orders: denying his motion for judicial disqualification 

and/or recusal; dismissing his appeal of an order granting the 

Defendant’s motion to compel; and denying his motion to amend 

the complaint. This court may exercise jurisdiction only over 

final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2006), and certain interlocutory 

and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (2006); Fed. R. Civ. P. 

54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 

(1949). The order Sturdivant seeks to appeal is neither a final 

order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order. 

Accordingly, we deny the motion for stay pending appeal 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 the court and 

argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

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