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Date Created: 2023-01-21 21:00:56.5951+00
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                                             UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                               No. 22-6891

        BRANDON MICHAEL PICKENS,

                             Plaintiff - Appellant,

                      v.

        STEVEN HENDRICKS, Officer, in his official capacity and individual capacity;
        QUENTIN MILLER, in his official capacity as Buncombe County Sheriff;
        WESTERN SURETY COMPANY; J. D. LAMBERT, Deputy, in his individual
        capacity; JEFF MAY, Deputy, in his individual capacity; KATHERINE LEWIS,
        Deputy, in her individual capacity,

                             Defendants - Appellees.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at
        Asheville. Martin K. Reidinger, Chief District Judge. (1:21-cv-00030-MR)

        Submitted: January 17, 2023                                       Decided: January 20, 2023

        Before KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, and TRAXLER, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Brandon Michael Pickens, Appellant Pro Se. Curtis William Euler, BUNCOMBE
        COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Asheville, North Carolina; Eric Patrick Edgerton,
        CITY OF ASHEVILLE CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Asheville, North Carolina, for
        Appellees.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

              Brandon Michael Pickens seeks to appeal the district court’s orders (a) granting

        Defendant Hendricks’ Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss; and (b) denying Pickens’

        Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion to alter or amend that ruling and disposing of various other

        motions. This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291,

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

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

        Pickens seeks to appeal are neither final orders nor are they appealable interlocutory or

        collateral orders. 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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