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Date Created: 2023-01-21 21:00:54.524022+00
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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                              UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                  FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 22-6944

        DANIEL PATRICK DEGOTO,

                            Plaintiff - Appellant,

                     v.

        GOVERNOR LARRY HOGAN; LT. GOVERNOR BOYD K. RUTHERFORD;
        SECRETARY ROBERT N. NEAL; DETECTIVE KROUCH; STATE’S
        ATTORNEY SCOTT D. SHELLENBERGER; PERCY WASSERMAN, Assistant
        State’s Attorney; DIANNA E. ABRAMOWSKI; KIM METCALF; COLLEEN A.
        CAVANAUGH; JUDGE ENSOR; JUDGE HOLLANDER; ADMINISTRATIVE
        JUDGE COX; ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE JAKUBOWSKI; CLERK STEPHON
        JOE; PUBLIC DEFENDER DEWOLFE; TANYA C. BERNSTEIN, Maryland
        Commission on Judicial Disability Director; FUCETOLA, Maryland Attorney
        Grievance Commission Counsel; PICCININI, Maryland Attorney Grievance
        Commission Counsel; ROBIN WOOLFORD; WILLIAM BOHRER, Warden;
        OFFICER T. LEACH; OFFICER SHANNON SINGLETON; NURSE
        ELIZABETH; DOCTOR CONTAH NIMELY; CLAUDIA HOWARD;
        GEORGETTE G. HUGHES,

                            Defendants - Appellees.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore.
        Peter J. Messitte, Senior District Judge. (1:22-cv-00057-PJM)

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

        Before KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, and TRAXLER, Senior Circuit Judge.
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        Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Daniel Patrick Degoto, Appellant Pro Se.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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        PER CURIAM:

               Daniel Patrick Degoto seeks to appeal the district court’s order dismissing some,

        but not all, of the Defendants named in Degoto’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint. 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 order Degoto seeks to appeal is neither a

        final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order. Accordingly, we dismiss the

        appeal for lack of jurisdiction and deny Degoto’s motion to appoint counsel. 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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