Court Opinion

ID: 4432823
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Date Created: 2019-08-23 19:00:27.19767+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                      No. 19-6639

JAMES C. MCNEILL,

                    Plaintiff - Appellant,

             v.

GEORGE SOLOMON, Director of Prisons; PAUL TAYLOR, Assistant
Superintendent; SGT. JOHNSON;   DOCTOR    LOCKLEAR-JONES;
SHAQUANNA M. WALL,

                    Defendants - Appellees,

             and

WILLIAM BULLARD, Assistant Superintendent; KATY POOLE, Superintendent;
SHANNON MAPLES, Unit Manager; GEORGE WARREN; PATRICIA
ANDERSON,

                    Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at
Greensboro. Loretta C. Biggs, District Judge. (1:17-cv-00924-LCB-JLW)

Submitted: August 20, 2019                                     Decided: August 23, 2019

Before FLOYD and RUSHING, Circuit Judges, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
James C. McNeill, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

       James C. McNeill seeks to appeal the district court’s order dismissing his 42 U.S.C.

§ 1983 (2012) action without prejudice as to some, but not all, defendants on the ground

that McNeill did not show good cause for failure to obtain service as to those defendants.

This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2012), and

certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (2012); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b);

Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949). The order McNeill

seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. 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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