UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 23-1976

MAWULE TEPE, 

Plaintiff - Appellant, 

v. 

CLIFTON L. CORKER, in his Honorable U.S. District Judge and personal positions; 

TRAVIS R. MCDONOUGH, in his Honorable U.S. District Judge and personal 

positions; KATHERINE A. CRYTZER, in her Honorable U.S. District Judge and 

personal positions; CURTIS L. COLLIER, in his Honorable U.S. District Judge and 

personal positions; SUSAN K. LEE, in her Honorable U.S. Magistrate Judge and 

personal positions; CHRISTOPHER H. STEGER, in his Honorable U.S. District 

Judge and personal positions; DANNY J. BOGGS, in his Honorable U.S. Sixth 

Circuit Judge and personal positions; RICHARD ALLEN GRIFFIN, in his 

Honorable U.S. Sixth Circuit Judge and personal positions; ANDRE B. MATHIS, in 

his Honorable U.S. Sixth Circuit District Judge and personal positions; JOHN K. 

BUSH, in his Honorable U.S. Sixth Circuit Judge and personal positions; ERIC E. 

MURPHY, in his Honorable U.S. Sixth Circuit Judge and personal positions; ERIC 

L. CLAY, in his Honorable U.S. Sixth Circuit Judge and personal positions; DAVID 

W. MCKEAGUE, in his Honorable U.S. Sixth Circuit Judge and personal positions; 

JOHN B. NALBANDIAN, in his Honorable U.S. Sixth Circuit Judge and personal 

positions; RONALD LEE GILMAN, in his Honorable U.S. Sixth Circuit Judge and 

personal positions; JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, in her Honorable U.S. Sixth Circuit 

Judge and personal positions; CHAD A. READLER, in his Honorable U.S. Sixth 

Circuit Judge and personal positions; DEBORAH S. HUNT, in her Sixth Circuit 

Clerk’s and personal positions; MONICA M. PAGE, in her Sixth Circuit Clerk’s and 

personal positions; PARIS LARON ROBINSON, in his Sixth Circuit Clerk’s and 

personal positions; MICHELLE LAMBERT, in her Sixth Circuit Clerk’s and 

personal positions; LEANNA WILSON, in her District Court Clerk’s and personal 

positions; U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF 

TENNESSEE; U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT; STATE 

OF TENNESSEE; STATE OF OHIO; DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; UNITED 

STATES; LUCILLE LATTIMORE NELSON, Attorney at Ogletree Deakins Law 

Firm, in her personal and Attorney position; WILLIAM STEWART RUTCHOW, 

USCA4 Appeal: 23-1976 Doc: 65 Filed: 05/30/2024 Pg: 1 of 4
2

Attorney at Ogletree Deakins Law Firm, in his personal and Attorney position; 

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART PC, Law Firm; EMILY 

LOUISE NENNI, Attorney at Javitch Block LLC, in her personal and Attorney 

position; MICHAEL D. SLODOV, Attorney at Javitch Block LLC, in his personal 

and Attorney position; JAVITCH BLOCK, LLC; FRANKIE NEIL SPERO, 

Attorney at Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings LLP, in his personal and Attorney 

capacity; BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS, LLP, Law Firm; DEREK 

WAYNE MULLINS, Attorney at Baker Donelson Law Firm, in his Attorney and 

personal position; JUSTIN MICHAEL SVEADAS, Attorney at Baker Donelson 

Law Firm, in his Attorney and personal position; BAKER, DONELSON, 

BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, PC, Law Firm; BANK OF 

AMERICA; TRUIST FINANCIAL CORPORATION; WHIRLPOOL 

CORPORATION, 

Defendants - Appellees. 

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

Charlotte. David C. Keesler, Magistrate Judge. (3:23-cv-00423-RJC-DCK) 

Submitted: February 28, 2024 Decided: May 30, 2024

Before KING, WYNN, and BENJAMIN, Circuit Judges. 

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. 

Mawule Tepe, Appellant Pro Se. Dawn Jordan, Assistant Attorney General, OFFICE OF 

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TENNESSEE, Nashville, Tennessee; Benjamin R. 

Holland, Michael D. Ray, OGLETREE DEAKINS NASH SMOAK & STEWART, PC, 

Charlotte, North Carolina; Michael D. Slodov, JAVITCH BLOCK, LLC, Cleveland, Ohio; 

Robert R. Marcus, BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS LLP, Charlotte, North 

Carolina; Derek Wayne Mullins, BAKER DONELSON, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Thomas 

Richmond McPherson, III, MCGUIREWOODS, LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina, for 

Appellees. 

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 

USCA4 Appeal: 23-1976 Doc: 65 Filed: 05/30/2024 Pg: 2 of 4
3

PER CURIAM: 

Mawule Tepe seeks to appeal the magistrate judge’s August 4, 2023, order directing 

the filing of a response to a motion to dismiss his civil action, August 8, 2023, order 

granting a motion for extension of time to file an answer or otherwise respond, August 11, 

2023, order denying his motion for extension of time, August 23, 2023, order denying his 

motion for leave to file a first amended complaint against several Defendants and directing 

the filing of an amended complaint or a response to the pending motion to dismiss, August 

25 and August 28, 2023, orders granting motions for extension of time to answer or 

otherwise respond, August 30 and September 6, 2023, orders directing him to file responses 

to motions to dismiss, September 8, 2023, order denying his motions challenging the 

jurisdiction of the district court and for an order of prohibition and to strike, and September 

11, 2023, order denying his motion challenging the qualification of an attorney and to 

strike. Appellees Javitch Block, LLC, Emily Louise Nenni, and Michael D. Slodov move 

to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. 

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, 545-47 (1949). The orders Tepe 

seeks to appeal are neither final orders nor appealable interlocutory or collateral orders. 

Accordingly, we grant Appellees’ motion to dismiss and dismiss the appeal for lack of 

jurisdiction. We deny Tepe’s motions to place the appeal in abeyance, to dismiss parties

and to strike, to amend or correct his notice of appeal, to accelerate case processing and to 

expedite decision, to vacate the district court’s case proceedings as null and void and 

USCA4 Appeal: 23-1976 Doc: 65 Filed: 05/30/2024 Pg: 3 of 4
4

requesting a ruling on pending motions and objections, to strike, and seeking costs. We 

deny the motions filed by Appellees Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, 

PC, Derek Wayne Mullins, Justin Michael Sveadas, and Truist Financial Corporation to 

suspend briefing, for costs, and to affirm. We deny the motion filed by Appellees 

Whirlpool Corporation, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., William Stewart 

Rutchow, and Lucille Lattimore Nelson to affirm. 

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

USCA4 Appeal: 23-1976 Doc: 65 Filed: 05/30/2024 Pg: 4 of 4