UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 03-1921

EUGENE T. HOLMES,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

versus

J. P. BRIENZG,

Defendant - Appellee, and

COLONEL FORD; J. B. HELTON; M. K. SHELOR; MONICA STEWART; A. S. MAUNEY; SERGEANT SCHALENGAUF; CAPTAIN BESS; CAPTAIN BUIE; LOYDE BLACK; BUDDY SMITH; DAVE STEWART; CHUCK WOMACK; GASTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT,

Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Richard L. Voorhees, District Judge. (CA-02-354-3-1-V)

Submitted: November 19, 2003 Decided: December 3, 2003

Before WILKINSON and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Eugene T. Holmes, Appellant Pro Se. Martha Raymond Thompson, STOTT, HOLLOWELL, PALMER & WINDHAM, Gastonia, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

PER CURIAM:

Eugene T. Holmes appeals from the district court’s order

accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and dismissing

several of Holmes’s claims brought under

(2000).

This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders,

(2000), and certain interlocutory and collateral

orders,

(2000); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v.

Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp.,

(1949). The order

appealed from is neither a final order nor an appealable

interlocutory or collateral order. Accordingly, we dismiss the

appeal for lack of jurisdiction. 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

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