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Date Created: 2023-02-24 21:01:17.666807+00
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                                             UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                               No. 22-1237

        DEATH AND TAXES LLC, d/b/a Death & Taxes and Bridge Club; ASPIC, INC.,
        d/b/a Poole’s Diner; ABC CORNERSHOP, INC., d/b/a Beasley’s Chicken +
        Honey, Chuck’s Burgers and Fox Liquor Bar; POOLE’SIDE, LLC, d/b/a Poole’side
        Pies; AUX KITCHEN LLC,

                             Plaintiffs - Appellants,

                      v.

        THE CINCINNATI INSURANCE COMPANY,

                             Defendant - Appellee.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at
        Raleigh. James C. Dever III, District Judge. (5:21-cv-00125-D)

        Submitted: February 21, 2023                                  Decided: February 23, 2023

        Before NIEMEYER and DIAZ, Circuit Judges, and MOTZ, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        ON BRIEF: Gagan Gupta, Stuart M. Paynter, PAYNTER LAW FIRM, PLLC,
        Hillsborough, North Carolina, for Appellants. Daniel G. Litchfield, Michael P. Baniak,
        Laurence J.W. Tooth, LITCHFIELD CAVO, LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Andrew A. Vanore,
        III, BROWN, CRUMP, VANORE & TIERNEY, PLLC, Raleigh, North Carolina, for
        Appellee.
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        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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        PER CURIAM:

               Plaintiffs appeal the district court’s order granting The Cincinnati Insurance

        Company’s (“Cincinnati”) Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ claims

        based on Cincinnati’s denial of insurance benefits Plaintiffs assert Cincinnati owed them

        to cover losses they sustained during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have reviewed the

        record and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s order. See

        Death and Taxes LLC v. The Cincinnati Ins. Co., No. 5:21-cv-00125-D (E.D.N.C. Feb. 2,

        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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