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Date Created: 2023-10-03 21:00:50.553285+00
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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 22-2306

        LYNN SNYDER,

                            Plaintiff - Appellant,

                     v.

        MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, STATE HIGHWAY
        ADMINISTRATION; STATE OF MARYLAND; DARION BRANHAM; DANIEL
        HOUCK,

                            Defendants - Appellees.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore.
        Catherine C. Blake, Senior District Judge. (1:21-cv-00930-CCB)

        Submitted: September 28, 2023                                     Decided: October 2, 2023

        Before NIEMEYER, THACKER, and RUSHING, Circuit Judges.

        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        ON BRIEF: Neil R. Lebowitz, LEBOWITZ LAW FIRM, Columbia, Maryland, for
        Appellant. Anthony G. Brown, Attorney General, DeNisha A. Watson, Carolyn M. Frank,
        Assistant Attorney General, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
        MARYLAND, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

              Lynn Snyder appeals the district court’s orders (1) granting Defendants’ motion to

        dismiss or, in the alternative, for summary judgment on Snyder’s employment and tort

        claims; and (2) denying Snyder’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion. We have reviewed the

        record and conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion when it converted

        Defendants’ motion to a summary judgment motion. See E.W. by & through T.W. v.

        Dolgos, 884 F.3d 172, 178 n.2 (4th Cir. 2018) (“We generally review a district court’s

        conversion of a motion to dismiss to a summary judgment motion for abuse of discretion.”).

        Further, we discern no error in the district court’s decision to grant Defendants summary

        judgment and thus affirm the district court’s orders. Snyder v. Md. Dep’t of Transp., State

        Highway Admin., No. 1:21-cv-00930-CCB (D. Md. Mar. 31, 2022; Nov. 22, 2022). 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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