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Parties Involved:
Patrick R. Donahoe
Appellee
Robert W. Harris
Appellant

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-1695

ROBERT W. HARRIS,

Plaintiff – Appellant,

v.

PATRICK R. DONAHOE, Postmaster General, United States 

Postal Service,

Defendant - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of Virginia, at Richmond. Robert E. Payne, Senior

District Judge. (3:14-cv-00427-REP)

Submitted: November 24, 2015 Decided: December 22, 2015

Before WILKINSON and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior 

Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Robert W. Harris, Appellant Pro Se. Elizabeth Wu, Assistant 

United States Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Robert W. Harris appeals the district court’s order 

dismissing this action alleging employment discrimination for 

failure to state a claim, Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). After de 

novo review, see Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 

(2007), we conclude that dismissal was proper. Even with a 

liberal construction of the complaint, we find that Harris’ 

unintelligible factual allegations were insufficient to give 

rise to an inference of liability and that his claims for relief 

were largely unintelligible. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 

662, 679 (2009); Giarrantano v. Johnson, 521 F.3d 298, 302 (4th 

Cir. 2015). We accordingly affirm. 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.

AFFIRMED 

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