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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                              UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                  FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 23-7225

        STEPHEN NIVENS,

                            Plaintiff - Appellant,

                     v.

        SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY &
        CORRECTIONAL SERVICES; BALTIMORE COUNTY DETENTION CENTER;
        LIEUTENANT BLEVINS, Baltimore County Detention Center Correctional
        Dietary Officer; J. PHILLIP MORGAN, Warden; RICHARD DOVEY, Warden;
        WILLIAM BOHRER, Warden; DIRECTOR O’NEIL, Baltimore County Detention
        Center,

                            Defendants - Appellees,

                     and

        TEHUM CARE SERVICES, INC., f/k/a Corizon Health, Inc.; YESCARE;
        DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES;
        UNNAMED INFECTION CONTROL LPN; ADAORA N. ODENZE, Director of
        Nursing Services; JOSEPH A. EZEIT, Director of Inmate Health Care
        Administration; SHARON L. BAUCOM, M.D., Chief Medical Director; JENNIFER
        MELLOTT, RN; BECKY BARNHART, RN, Assistant Director of Nursing,

                            Defendants.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore.
        Ellen Lipton Hollander, Senior District Judge. (1:23-cv-02298-ELH)

        Submitted: February 22, 2024                               Decided: February 27, 2024
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        Before NIEMEYER and HEYTENS, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Stephen Nivens, Appellant Pro Se.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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        PER CURIAM:

               Stephen Nivens seeks to appeal the district court’s order dismissing some, but not

        all, of the claims raised in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint. This court 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, 545-46 (1949). The order Nivens seeks to appeal is neither a final

        order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order. Accordingly, we dismiss the

        appeal for lack of jurisdiction. 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

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