UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 98-2587

JOHN TIMOTHY QUANDER, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus

ARLINGTON COUNTY GOVERNMENT, Defendant - Appellee, and

EDWARD P. PLAUGHER, Arlington County, Fire Chief; FLOYD WALTERS, SR., Battalion Chief, Manager; JOHN WHITE, Battalion Chief, Manager; KENNETH JOHNSON, Captain; ARLINGTON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT, Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria. W. Curtis Sewell, Magistrate Judge. (CA-98-459-A)

Submitted: January 21, 1999 Decided: February 5, 1999

Before LUTTIG, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

John Timothy Quander, Appellant Pro Se. Peter Harlan Maier, Assis- tant County Attorney, Arlington, Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

See Local Rule 36(c).

PER CURIAM: John Timothy Quander appeals the magistrate judge’s order granting summary judgment to the Defendants on his employment dis- crimination action.1 Our review of the record and the magistrate judge’s opinion discloses no reversible error. Accordingly, we af- firm on the reasoning of the magistrate judge. See Quander v. Arlington County, No. CA-98-459-A (E.D. Va. Sept. 21, 1998).2 We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

The parties consented to the jurisdiction of a magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) (1994).

Although the magistrate judge’s order is marked as “filed” on September 18, 1998, the district court’s records show that it was entered on the docket sheet on September 21, 1998. Pursuant to Rules 58 and 79(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, it is the date that the judgment or order was entered on the docket sheet that we take as the effective date of the decision. See Wilson v. Murray, 806 F.2d 1232, 1234-35 (4th Cir. 1986).