Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Quentin Dawan HAYES, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-04-01
Citations: 564 F. App'x 41
Docket Number: No. 14-6086
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Quentin Dawan HAYES, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before MOTZ, Circuit Judge, and HAMILTON and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 564
Pages: 41–41

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Quentin Dawan HAYES, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 14-6086.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: March 27, 2014.
Decided: April 1, 2014.
Quentin Dawan Hayes, Appellant Pro Se. Alfred William Walker Bethea, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Florence, South Carolina, for Appellee.
Before MOTZ, Circuit Judge, and HAMILTON and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
Remanded by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Quentin Dawan Hayes seeks to appeal the district court's order dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion. Parties in a civil action in which the United States or an officer or agency of the federal government is a party are accorded sixty days after the entry of the district court's final judgment or order to note an appeal. Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(1)(B). This time period is "mandatory and jurisdictional." Browder v. Dir., Dep't of Corr., 434 U.S. 257, 264, 98 S.Ct. 556, 54 L.Ed.2d 521 (1978) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214, 127 S.Ct. 2360, 168 L.Ed.2d 96 (2007) ("[T]he timely filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional requirement.").
Because Hayes is incarcerated, the notice of appeal is considered filed on the date it was properly delivered to prison officials for mailing to the court. Fed. R.App. P. 4(c)(1); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.2d 245 (1988). The record does not conclusively reveal when Hayes delivered the notice of appeal to prison officials for mailing. Accordingly, we remand the case for the limited purpose of allowing the district court to obtain this information from the parties and to determine whether the filing was timely under Fed. R.App. P. 4(c)(1) and Houston v. Lack. The record, as supplemented, will then be returned to this court for further consideration.
REMANDED.