Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Daniel Junior McNEIL, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-03-31
Citations: 642 F. App'x 285
Docket Number: No. 15-7638
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Daniel Junior McNEIL, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before GREGORY and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 642
Pages: 285–286

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Daniel Junior McNEIL, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 15-7638.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: March 29, 2016.
Decided: March 31, 2016.
Daniel Junior McNeil, Appellant Pro Se. Lisa Blue Boggs, Assistant United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before GREGORY and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Opinion:
Remanded by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Daniel Junior McNeil, a federal prisoner, seeks to appeal the district court's order adopting the magistrate judge's recommendation and denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion. Parties in a civil action in which the United States is a party have 60 days following entry of judgment in which to file a notice of appeal. Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(1)(B). "[T]he timely filing of a notice of'appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional requirement." Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214, 127 S.Ct. 2360, 168 L.Ed.2d 96 (2007).
Because McNeil 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, 276, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.2d 245 (1988). The record does not conclusively reveal when McNeil 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.