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Date Created: 2023-03-24 21:01:45.23415+00
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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                              UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                  FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 22-1917

        MARIE THERESE ASSA’AD-FALTAS,

                            Plaintiff - Appellant,

                     v.

        SARAH HEATHER SAVITZ WEISS; JOHN MEADORS; BARNEY GIESE, all
        three individually for damages arising from malicious prosecution and for qui tam
        recovery; BARBARA JEAN BURNS, f/k/a Popowski; MARION ONEIDA
        HANNA, both individually for damages for torts arising from their non-judicial acts
        and for qui tam recovery; GINGLIAT, BETTIS AND SAVITZ LAW FIRM, THE;
        MCANGUS, GOUDELOCK & COURIE LAW FIRM, THE, (MG&C) both firms
        for damages arising from conspiracies and for qui tam recovery; J. ANDREW
        DELANEY; STERLING GRAYDON DAVIES; BRETT BAYNE, all three
        individually for damages arising from conspiracies and other torts and for qui tam
        recovery; KEN GAINES; ROBERT G. COOPER; DANA M. THYE; DAVID A.
        FERNANDEZ, all four individually for damages arising from malicious prosecution
        and conspiracies and for qui tam recovery; STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, (SC);
        SC GENERAL ASSEMBLY; SC JUDICIAL MERIT SELECTIONS
        COMMISSION, (JMSC) all three entities solely for injunctive and declaratory relief;
        COLUMBIA SC, THE CITY OF, (“The City”); COLUMBIA POLICE
        DEPARTMENT, (CPD), both entities for injunctive and declaratory relief, for
        damages and for qui tam recovery; GARY JOHNSON; JOHN K. PASSMORE;
        AMANDA H. LONG BRANHAM; DEBBIE C. JORDAN; AMANDA STAR
        BLANTON, all five individually for damages from malicious prosecution and for
        qui tam recovery; CARL BURKE, Former Acting CPD Chief; RUBEN
        SANTIAGO, Former Acting CPD Chief; TANDY CARTER, former CPD Chief; all
        three individually for damages arising from gross negligence and for qui tam
        recovery; CAPTAIN HENDRIX, Present or former CPD Captain; CAPTAIN
        THORNTON, Present or former CPD Captain; LIEUTENANT BUTZER;
        LIEUTENANT EVANS; LIEUTENANT GIBSON; LIEUTENANT L. SHARPE;
        LIEUTENANT SMITH; LIEUTENANT YATES; SERGEANT AULD;
        SERGEANT DRAFTS; SERGEANT GUNTHER; SERGEANT SANDERS;
        CORPORAL BRANHAM; CORPORAL BELL; CORPORAL CALDWELL;
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        CORPORAL GOMEZ-RIEVERA; INVESTIGATOR BRIAN; INVESTIGATOR
        BAILEY; NAREWSKI; OFFICER ASHMORE; OFFICER BROWN; OFFICER
        DEJESUS; OFFICER GIRARD; OFFICER KELSON; OFICER MCSWAIN;
        OFFICER MEDLOCK; OFFICER WHITE, all twenty-seven individually for
        damages; DAVID ROSS, officially as head of SC’s Prosecution Commission;
        JEANETTE MCBRIDE, officially as Richland County’s, SC, (“RC”) Clerk of Court,
        both for injunctive and declaratory relief and for qui tam recovery; DINAH GAIL
        STEELE; LARRY WAYNE MASON; WENDY CEO; CHARLENE CROUCH;
        COREY CURRY; TERESA INGRAM; JOHN MITCHEL JONES, (“Mitch”);
        TIFFANY LURKE; CHRISTOPHER JAMES MASON; RICHARD WAYNE
        MASON; WILLIAM TETTERTON; ALDEN HOLLIS WHEELER; JOHN DOE;
        JANE ROE, all fourteen individually for damages; DANA TURNER, falsely bearing
        a title of Chief Administrative Judge of the City’s Municipal Court (CMC)
        individually for damages and officially for injunctive and declaratory relief and qui
        tam recovery; NIMRATA R. HALEY, a SC’s Governor; ALAN WILSON, as SC’s
        Attorney General; HENRY DARGAN MCMASTER, as SC’s Lieutenant Governor;
        JOHN COURSON, as President pro tempore of SC’s Senate; JAY LUCAS, as
        Speaker of SC’s House of Representatives; JEAN HOEFER TOAL, as
        administrative head of all SC’s state courts; DANIEL E. SHEAROUSE, as Clerk of
        SC’s Supreme Court; JENNY KITCHENS, as Clerk of SC’s Court of Appeals;
        MARK KEEL, as Chief of SC’s State Law Enforcement Division (SLED); LEROY
        SMITH, as Head of SC’s Department of Public Safety; LEON LOTT, as RC Sheriff;
        WARDEN OF ALVIN S GLENN DETENTION CENTER, (ASGDC); DANIEL
        JOHNSON, as SC’s Fifth Judicial Circuit’s Solicitor; GARY H. WATTS, as Coroner
        for Richland County, SC; ROBERT ELDON HOOD, as Current SC’s Fifth Judicial
        Circuits Administrative Judge for General Sessions; LESLEY MCALLISTER
        COGGIOLA, as SC’s Disciplinary Counsel; ROSLYNN FRIERSON, as Director of
        SC’s Office of Court Administration; WILLIAM N. NETTLES, as U.S. Attorney for
        the District of South Carolina; STEVEN BENJAMIN, as Mayor and the other six
        members of the City Council; TERESA WILSON, manager for the City; all twenty-
        six solely officially and solely for injunctive and declaratory relief,

                             Defendants - Appellees.

                                               No. 22-1920

        MARIE THERESE ASSA’AD-FALTAS, MD MPH,

                             Plaintiff - Appellant,

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                     v.

        COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA, CITY OF; THE CITY’S POLICE
        DEPARTMENT, for damages and injunctive and declaratory relief; SARA
        HEATHER SAVITZ WEISS, individually for damages; TANDY CARTER,
        individually for damages; DEBBIE C. JORDAN, individually for damages;
        MICHAEL KING, individually for damages; CPD CAPTAIN GREGORY A.
        SHARP, individually for damages; CPD SARGENT JAMES AULD, individually
        for damages; CPD OFFICER BROWN, individually for damages; CPD OFFICER
        GIRARD, individually for damages; RICHLAND/COLUMBIA DISPATCHER
        BRUNER, individually for damages; RETIRED CPD SARGENT JOSEPH SMITH,
        individually for damages; DANA ELIZABETH DAVIS TURNER, individually for
        damages; PAMELA ELAINE JACOBS HAWKINS, individually for damages;
        ATTORNEY ROBERT G. COOPER, individually for damages; ATTORNEY
        DAVID W. FARRELL, individually for damages; DINAH GAIL STEELE; LARRY
        WAYNE MASON; JOHN MITCHEL JONES; CHARLENE CROUCH; TERESA
        FELICIA INGRAM-JACKSON, individually for damages; STEELE
        ENTERPRISES, corporation owned by Steele and/or Mason for damages; AAA
        INVESTIGATIONS, corporation owned by Steele and/or Mason for damages; J.
        ANDREW DELANEY, individually for damages; MCANGUS GOUDELOCK &
        COURIE, for damages; REUBEN SANTIAGO, Interim CPD Chief solely officially
        for injunctive and declaratory relief; TERESA WISLON, Manager of the City solely
        officially for injunctive and declaratory relief; ALAN WILSON, Attorney General
        of South Carolina solely officially for injunctive and declaratory relief, and other
        presently-unknown persons and entities who acted to injure Plaintiff on 12 December
        2009,

                            Defendants - Appellees.

        Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at
        Columbia. Terry L. Wooten, Senior District Judge. (3:15-cv-03186-TLW; 3:13-cv-02715-
        TLW)

        Submitted: March 21, 2023                                      Decided: March 23, 2023

        Before WYNN and RICHARDSON, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

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        Marie Therese Assa’ad-Faltas, Appellant Pro Se.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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        PER CURIAM:

              In these consolidated cases, Marie Therese Assa’ad-Faltas appeals the district

        court’s orders denying her motions to reopen the respective underlying district court

        actions. We have reviewed the records in the underlying actions and discern no error. We

        thus affirm the district court’s orders. See Assa’ad-Faltas v. Weiss, No. 3:15-cv-03186-

        TLW (D.S.C. Aug. 2, 2022); Assa’ad-Faltas v. Columbia, S.C., No. 3:13-cv-02715-TLW

        (D.S.C. July 28, 2022). We deny all pending motions in these appeals. 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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