UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 96-6773

JAMES EUGENE VENABLE,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

versus

J. M. JABE, Warden; J. A. SMITH, JR., Regional Director; P. A. TERRANGI, Deputy Warden; W. S. COPELAND; C. TILLERY, Counselor; DR. MARSHALL; MR. LORD; K. HAMLIN, Nurse; G. L. BASS, Deputy Warden,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond. Richard L. Williams, Senior District Judge. (CA-95-841)

Submitted: October 17, 1996 Decided: October 24, 1996

Before MURNAGHAN and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

James Eugene Venable, Appellant Pro Se. Lance Bradford Leggitt, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, Virginia; David Ernest Boelzner, WRIGHT, ROBINSON, OSTHIMER & TATUM, Rich- mond, Virginia, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c). 2 PER CURIAM:

Appellant appeals the district court's order dismissing

several of the many Defendants from this

(1994)

action. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the

order is not appealable. This court may exercise jurisdiction only

over final orders,

(1988), and certain interlocu- tory and collateral orders,

(1988); Fed. R. Civ.

P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp.,

(1949). The order here appealed is neither a final order nor an

appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

We dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. We deny Appellant's motion for general relief and dispense with oral argument because

the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the ma-

terials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

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