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Date Created: 2024-04-03 21:01:46.345154+00
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                                             UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                               No. 23-7165

        ANDRIVIA FRANCES WELLS,

                             Plaintiff - Appellant,

                      v.

        MECKLENBURG COUNTY CLERK OF PROBATE ESTATES; MEMPHIS L.
        SMITH, JR.; AUDRIS VERONICA FORD ASMOND,

                             Defendants - Appellees.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at
        Charlotte. Max O. Cogburn, Jr., District Judge. (3:23-cv-00356-MOC-SCR)

        Submitted: March 28, 2024                                          Decided: April 2, 2024

        Before KING and RUSHING, Circuit Judges, and MOTZ, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Andrivia Frances Wells, Appellant Pro Se. J.P. McGuire Boyd, Jr., WILLIAMS
        MULLEN, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee Audris Veronica Ford Asmond.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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        PER CURIAM:

               Andrivia Wells seeks to appeal the district court’s order dismissing her 42 U.S.C.

        § 1983 action for failure to state a claim. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction

        because the notice of appeal was not timely filed.

               In civil cases, parties have 30 days after the entry of the district court’s final

        judgment or order to note an appeal, Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), unless the district court

        extends the appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5) or reopens the appeal period under

        Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6). “[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 (2007).

               The district court entered its order on October 18, 2023. Wells filed the notice of

        appeal on November 20, 2023. Because Wells failed to file a timely notice of appeal or to

        obtain an extension or reopening of the appeal period, we dismiss the appeal.

               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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