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Date Created: 2023-05-06 21:00:45.103262+00
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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                                 No. 23-6054

        VINCENT FRAYER, JR.,

                             Petitioner - Appellant,

                      v.

        WARDEN, FCI Beckley,

                             Respondent - Appellee.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, at
        Beckley. Frank W. Volk, District Judge. (5:20-cv-00499)

        Submitted: March 17, 2023                                           Decided: May 5, 2023

        Before AGEE, Circuit Judge, and TRAXLER and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judges.

        Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Vincent Frayer, Jr., Appellant Pro Se.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               Vincent Frayer, Jr., seeks to appeal the district court’s order accepting the magistrate

        judge’s recommendation and dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition and amended § 2241

        petition. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the notice of appeal was

        not timely filed.

               When the United States or its officer or agency is a party in a civil case, the notice

        of appeal must be filed no more than 60 days after the entry of the district court’s final

        judgment or order, Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(B), unless the district court extends the appeal

        period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5) or reopens the appeal period under Fed. R. App. P.

        4(a)(6). “[T]he timely filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional

        requirement.” Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).

               The district court entered its order on March 7, 2022. Frayer filed the notice of

        appeal on May 20, 2022. * Because Frayer failed to file a timely notice of appeal or to

        obtain an extension or reopening of the appeal period, we dismiss the appeal.

               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

               *
                For the purpose of this appeal, we assume that the date appearing on the notice of
        appeal is the earliest date Frayer could have delivered the notice to prison officials for
        mailing to the court. Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276 (1988).

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