Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-01-06 21:00:35.451749+00
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                                              UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                               No. 21-7177

        JEFFREY CORPORAL,

                            Plaintiff - Appellant,

                     v.

        LIEUTENANT PENNINGTON; OFFICER DONALDSON; BUTLER, Assistant
        Warden; WARDEN WEBER; ARNOLD, Security Chief; COMMISSIONER HILL;
        SECRETARY GREEN,

                            Defendants - Appellees.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore.
        Deborah K. Chasanow, Senior District Judge. (1:20-cv-03357-DKC)

        Submitted: December 12, 2022                                      Decided: January 5, 2023

        Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, DIAZ, Circuit Judge, and KEENAN, Senior Circuit
        Judge.

        Dismissed and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Jeffrey Corporal, Appellant Pro Se.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               Jeffrey Corporal appeals the district court’s order granting Defendants’ motion to

        dismiss or for summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Before addressing the

        merits of Corporal’s appeal, we first must be assured that we have jurisdiction. Porter v.

        Zook, 803 F.3d 694, 696 (4th Cir. 2015). We 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, 545-47 (1949).

        “Ordinarily, a district court order is not final until it has resolved all claims as to all parties.”

        Porter, 803 F.3d at 696 (internal quotation marks omitted).

               Our review of the record reveals that the district court did not adjudicate all of the

        claims raised in Corporal’s complaint. Specifically, the court failed to address Corporal’s

        allegations that his First Amendment rights were violated when Donaldson withheld

        permissible paperback books because Corporal refused to acquiesce to the destruction of

        his allegedly prohibited hardcover book and subsequently continued to withhold the

        paperback books in retaliation for Corporal filing a grievance. Because the order Corporal

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

        we lack jurisdiction over the appeal.

               Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction and remand to the district

        court for consideration of the unresolved claims. 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 AND REMANDED

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