UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 00-1925

PRISCILLA HINES, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT; SOCIAL SECURITY AGENCY; KENNETH S. APFEL, COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY; PAUL D. BARNES; SANDY CRANKS; WILLIAM WAXMAN, Director; RITA GELER, Commis- sioner; DEBORAH MORRIS, Judge; CAROLYN W.

NEYMAN, Regional Commissioner; GORDON SHERMAN, Region 4 Commissioner, Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern Dis- trict of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Terrence W. Boyle, Chief Dis- trict Judge. (CA-99-626-5-BO)

Submitted: December 8, 2000 Decided: December 19, 2000

Before WILLIAMS and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Priscilla Hines, Appellant Pro Se. Barbara Dickerson Kocher, OF- FICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

See Local Rule 36(c).

PER CURIAM: Priscilla Hines appeals the district court’s order remanding her suit seeking social security benefits to the Commissioner of Social Security. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the order is not appealable. This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (1994), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (1994); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949). The order here appealed is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

See Shalala v. Schaefer, 509 U.S. 292, 297-98 (1993).

Thus, we dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. 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.

DISMISSED