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Date Created: 2023-09-07 21:01:01.560278+00
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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 21-2038

        RACHAEL L. COOK,

                            Plaintiff - Appellant,

                     v.

        SCOTT MCQUATE,

                            Defendant - Appellee,

                     and

        THE OHIO COMPANY; JOHN RICHARD BLAZER,

                            Defendants.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at
        Roanoke. Michael F. Urbanski, Chief District Judge. (7:15-cv-00456-MFU-RSB)

        Submitted: April 27, 2023                                    Decided: September 6, 2023

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

        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        ON BRIEF: Henry W. McLaughlin, III, Esq., LAW OFFICE OF HENRY
        MCLAUGHLIN, P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               Rachael L. Cook appeals from a civil judgment entered after a jury found she failed

        to prove her fraud and related claims against Scott McQuate, along with the district court’s

        denial of her Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion. On appeal, Cook challenges the district court’s

        construction of McQuate’s late answer to a request for admissions as a motion under Fed.

        R. Civ. P. 36(b) to withdraw and the court’s decision to grant that motion. We have

        reviewed the record and conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion.

        Accordingly, we affirm. Cook v. McQuate, No. 7:15-cv-00456-MFU-RSB (W.D. Va. filed

        May 15, 2018 & entered May 16, 2018; July 23, 2018). 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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