UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 99-2381

JOHN M. DICKSON, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; UNITED STATES DE- PARTMENT OF JUSTICE; EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPOR- TUNITY COMMISSION; UNITED STATES POSTAL SER- VICE; UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA; ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE STATE OF MARYLAND; AMTRAK; JAMAICA WEST INDIES; HELEN F. FAHEY, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; AMERICAN INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN DELEGATES TO INTERPOL, Defendants - Appellees, and

HUDSON AND SHATZ MID-ATLANTIC PAINTING COM- PANY; DISTRICT COUNCIL #51; VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL DISTRICT; CACI, INCORPORATED; VELL PAINTING, INCORPORATED; COLONIAL CLASSIC PAINTING, INCORPORATED; A-Z CONTRACTING, INCORPORATED; ROBIN A. RATTLEY, Attorney at Law; BLOCK BUSTER ENTERTAINMENT GROUP; QUICK SERVE, INCORPORATED; HAMPTON PUBLIC LIBRARY; HANN & HANN, INCORPORATED; TODD BLOND; SOUTH- POINT APARTMENTS; CLIFF SMALLS; AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY; NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY; CBS, INCORPORATED; PUBLIC BROADCAST- ING SERVICE; WBLS INNER CITY BROADCASTING; WJCD/105.3 FM; KLM AIRLINES; AIR JAMAICA; HOLLAND NETHERLANDS, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to United Nations; THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; FRED BREWINGTON; RICHARD L. GUILFORD; JOHN DOES 1-7; HEARTBEAT ALLEY; PHOENIX GROUP; PICASSOS; NORVA PAINT- ING, INCORPORATED; CAREY'S PAINTING, INCORPO- RATED; JERRY A. OLIVER, Police Chief; PAT G.

MINETTI, Police Chief; DENNIS MOOK, Police Chief; CHARLES R. WALL, Police Chief; ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW YORK; AMERICAN DRUG CENTER, INCORPORATED, a/k/a Drug Emporium, Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria. James C. Cacheris, Senior District Judge. (CA-99-210-A)

Submitted: February 24, 2000 Decided: March 1, 2000

Before MOTZ and KING, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

John M. Dickson, Appellant Pro Se. Leslie Bonner McClendon, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Alexandria, Virginia; Randolph Stuart Sergent, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MARYLAND, Baltimore, Maryland; Donna S. McCaffrey, WATT, TIEDER & HOFFAR, McLean, Virginia; Michael Robert Ward, Phillip Morris, MORRIS & MORRIS, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

See Local Rule 36(c).

PER CURIAM: John M. Dickson appeals the district court’s order dismissing his complaint against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Maryland Attorney General, Jamaica West Indies, Amtrak, the United States Department of Justice, the Attorney General of the Eastern District of Virginia, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the United States Postal Service, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the American Interests of the American Delegates to Interpol. We have reviewed the record and the district court’s order and find no reversible error. Accord- ingly, we affirm on the reasoning of the district court, which noted that many of the Defendants were entitled to immunity and that Dickson’s claims were fivolous. See Dickson v. Hudson & Shatz, No. CA-99-210-A (E.D. Va. Aug. 30, 1999).* We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequate- ly presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

* Although the district court order is marked as “filed” on August 27, 1999, the district court record’s show that it was entered on the docket sheet on August 30, 1999. Pursuant to Rules and 79(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, it is the date the order was entered on the docket sheet that we take as the effective date of the district court’s decision. See Wilson v. Murray, 806 F.2d 1232, 1234-35 (4th Cir. 1986).