Court Opinion

ID: 217478
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Date Created: 2011-05-25 19:53:25+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:28:32.604080
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UNPUBLISHED

                  UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                      FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                            No. 10-7506

IBRAHIM ABDULLAH JABBAR,

                Plaintiff – Appellant,

          v.

C. T. WOODY, Sheriff; CAPT. ROBINSON, Medical Dept. Sup.;
DR. FURMAN, Head Doctor, RCJ; DEPUTY HARRIS, Mailroom; NURSE
FORD, Medical Dept. RCJ; SGT. JONES, Grievance Coordinator;
LT. COLONEL BURNETT, Jail Operations; MAJ. ROBINSON, Medical
Dept. Supervisor; CAPT. MCREA, Jail Operations RCJ; CHAPLAIN
PRUITT, Under Sheriff, RCJ,

                Defendants – Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria.   T. S. Ellis, III, Senior
District Judge. (1:09-cv-00246-TSE-TCB)

Submitted:   May 18, 2011                 Decided:   May 25, 2011

Before WILKINSON, KING, and DIAZ, Circuit Judges.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Ibrahim Abdullah Jabbar, Appellant Pro Se. Thomas Douglas Lane,
THOMPSON MCMULLAN PC, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

           Ibrahim Jabbar seeks to appeal the district court’s

orders denying relief on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2006) complaint.

The district court’s final order was entered on September 10,

2010.    We construe Jabbar’s notice of appeal as having been

filed, at the earliest, on October 20, 2010, the date on his

notice of appeal.    See Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1); Houston v. Lack,

487 U.S. 266, 277 (1988).             In his notice of appeal, Jabbar

stated that he did not receive notice of the district court’s

order until October 19, 2010. *

           Parties are accorded thirty days after entry of the

district court’s final judgment or order to note an appeal, Fed.

R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), 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).           This appeal period

is “mandatory and jurisdictional.”            Browder v. Dir., Dep’t of

Corr., 434 U.S. 257, 264 (1978) (internal quotation marks and

citation omitted); see also Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214

(2007) (“Today we make clear that the timely filing of a notice

of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional requirement.”).

     *
       The record reflects Jabbar informed the district court of
a change of address on September 11, 2010.

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          Jabbar’s     notice    of       appeal     is     clearly     untimely.

However, under Rule 4(a)(6), the district court may reopen the

time to file an appeal if (1) the moving party did not receive

notice of entry of judgment within twenty-one days after entry,

(2) the motion is filed within 180 days of entry of judgment or

within   fourteen    days   of   receiving         notice    from     the    court,

whichever is earlier, and (3) no party would be prejudiced.                       We

remand for the limited purpose of permitting the district court

to determine whether Jabbar is entitled to the benefit of Rule

4(a)(6) to reopen the time to file an appeal.                  The record, as

supplemented, will then be returned to this court for further

consideration.

                                                                            REMANDED

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