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Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:01:03.551385+00
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                                         UNPUBLISHED

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                            No. 22-1378

        BARBARA ANN KELLY,

                          Plaintiff – Appellant,

        GREGORY B. MYERS,

                          Debtor,

                   v.

        MCNAMEE, HOSEA, JERNIGAN, GREEN & LYNCH, P.A.,

                          Defendant - Appellee,

                   and

        ROGER SCHLOSSBERG,

                          Trustee – Appellee.

                                            No. 22-1379

        GREGORY B. MYERS,

                          Debtor – Appellant,

        BARBARA ANN KELLY,

                          Plaintiff,

                   v.
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        MCNAMEE, HOSEA, JERNIGAN, GREEN & LYNCH, P.A.,

                            Defendant – Appellee,

                     and

        ROGER SCHLOSSBERG,

                            Trustee – Appellee.

        Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt.
        George Jarrod Hazel, District Judge. (8:21-cv-01186-GJH; 8:21-cv-01184-GJH; 8:21-cv-
        01185-GJH)

        Submitted: August 24, 2023                                        Decided: August 28, 2023

        Before QUATTLEBAUM and HEYTENS, Circuit Judges, and MOTZ, Senior Circuit
        Judge.

        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Barbara Ann Kelly and Gregory B. Myers, Appellants Pro Se. Daniel Russell Hodges,
        ECCLESTON & WOLF, PC, Hanover, Maryland; Frank Joseph Mastro, SCHLOSSBERG
        MASTRO, Hagerstown, Maryland, for Appellees.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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        PER CURIAM:

               Barbara Ann Kelly and Gregory B. Myers appeal the district court’s order

        dismissing their bankruptcy appeals for failure to timely file designations of the records on

        appeal as required by Fed. R. Bankr. P. 8009(a)(1). On appeal, we confine our review to

        the issues raised in the informal brief. See 4th Cir. R. 34(b). Because the informal briefs

        filed by Kelly and Myers do not challenge the basis for the district court’s disposition, they

        have forfeited appellate review of the district court’s order. See Jackson v. Lightsey, 775

        F.3d 170, 177 (4th Cir. 2014) (“The informal brief is an important document; under Fourth

        Circuit rules, our review is limited to issues preserved in that brief.”). Accordingly, we

        affirm the district court’s judgment. Additionally, we deny Kelly’s and Myers’ motions to

        dismiss their appeals without prejudice, deny the Appellees’ motions to dismiss the

        appeals, and deny the Trustee’s motion for sanctions. 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.

                                                                                         AFFIRMED

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