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Date Created: 2023-07-28 21:01:46.179143+00
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                                             UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                               No. 22-2303

        TODD LYNN PARKIN,

                             Plaintiff - Appellant,

                      v.

        DR. TONY BALDWIN, Superintendent of the Buncombe County School District
        (BCS); DAVID THOMPSON, BCS Director of Student Services and 504
        Coordinator; CONNIE DENNING, IEP team member, BCS Assistant EC
        (Exceptional Children’s) Director; KAREN BARNHILL, IEP team member, BCS
        Principal of Enka Middle School, formerly Principal of Cane Creek Middle School
        (CCMS); DIANE MCENTIRE, IEP team member, BCS Assistant Principal of Enka
        Middle School, formerly Assistant Principal of CCMS; GINA SCHWEITZER, IEP
        team member, II Intensive Intervention (special education) teacher for BCS at
        CCMS; MELANIE RAMSEY, IEP team member, Director and Principal of the
        Progressive Education Program (PEP); BUNCOMBE COUNTY SCHOOL
        DISTRICT,

                             Defendants - Appellees.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at
        Asheville. Martin K. Reidinger, Chief District Judge. (1:21-cv-00261-MR-DCK)

        Submitted: July 25, 2023                                          Decided: July 27, 2023

        Before WYNN and HEYTENS, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
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        Todd Lynn Parkin, Appellant Pro Se. Ashley Frances Leonard, CAMPBELL SHATLEY,
        PLLC, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellees.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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        PER CURIAM:

               Todd Lynn Parkin appeals the district court’s order adopting in part a magistrate

        judge’s report and recommendation, granting Defendants’ motion to dismiss, and

        dismissing Parkin’s complaint. On appeal, we confine our review to the issues raised in

        the informal brief. See 4th Cir. R. 34(b). Because Parkin’s informal brief does not

        challenge the basis for the district court’s disposition, he has forfeited appellate review of

        the court’s order. See Jackson v. Lightsey, 775 F.3d 170, 177 (4th Cir. 2014) (“The

        informal brief is an important document; under Fourth Circuit rules, our review is limited

        to issues preserved in that brief.”). Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s judgment.

        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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