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Parties Involved:
Homesite Insurance Company
Appellee
Kyle Raley
Appellant
Mikal Stapleton

Patrick Stapleton

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-2207

HOMESITE INSURANCE COMPANY,

Plaintiff – Appellee,

v.

KYLE RALEY,

Defendant – Appellant,

and

PATRICK STAPLETON; MIKAL STAPLETON,

Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of Virginia, at Alexandria. Claude M. Hilton, Senior

District Judge. (1:14-cv-00199-CMH-TCB)

Submitted: June 19, 2015 Decided: July 1, 2015

Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Mark T. Foley, SASSCER, CLAGETT & BUCHER, Upper Marlboro, 

Maryland, for Appellant. Robert M. Hardy, JORDAN COYNE LLP, 

Fairfax, Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Kyle Raley seeks to appeal the district court’s order 

granting default judgment against his co-defendants. This court 

may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1291 (2012), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 

28 U.S.C. § 1292 (2012); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. 

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

order Raley seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an 

appealable interlocutory or collateral order. The case is still 

ongoing against Raley, as there has been no order entered 

dismissing him from the suit or entering judgment for or against 

him. Accordingly, we 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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