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Parties Involved:
Dwayne E. Freeman
Appellant
Sergeant Kim
Appellee
Lieutenant Knight
Appellee
Sergeant Laura
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 24-1539

DWAYNE E. FREEMAN,

 Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

SERGEANT KIM, the Acting Lieutenant; Jailor Sergeant; SERGEANT LAURA, 

Jailor Sergeant; LIEUTENANT KNIGHT, Lieutenant Jailor,

 Defendants - Appellees.

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

Greensboro. Loretta C. Biggs, Senior District Judge. (1:24-cv-00204-LCB-JEP)

Submitted: October 30, 2024 Decided: January 13, 2025

Before GREGORY, HEYTENS, and BENJAMIN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Dwayne E. Freeman, Appellant Pro Se. 

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Dwayne E. Freeman seeks to appeal the district court’s judgment accepting the 

magistrate judge’s recommendation and dismissing without prejudice Freeman’s 42 U.S.C. 

§ 1983 complaint. This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1291, and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292; Fed. R. Civ. P. 

54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949). The order 

Freeman seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral 

order. See Britt v. DeJoy, 45 F.4th 790, 793, 797 (4th Cir. 2022) (en banc) (order) 

(explaining that a district court’s “order that dismisses a complaint with leave to amend is 

not a final decision” and that plaintiff must either file an amended complaint in the district 

court or “request that the district court enter a final decision dismissing [his] case without 

leave to amend”). 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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