UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 06-1931

GREGORY WAYNE ALFORD, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Cameron McGowan Currie, District Judge. (3:04-cv-23257-CMC)

Submitted: February 22, 2007 Decided: February 27, 2007

Before WILLIAMS, MOTZ, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Gregory Wayne Alford, Appellant Pro Se. Mark Wilson Buyck, Jr., WILLCOX, BUYCK & WILLIAMS, P.A., Florence, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM: Gregory Wayne Alford appeals the district court’s order accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and district court’s adverse grant of summary judgment on his employment discrimination* and retaliation action. We have reviewed the record and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm substantially for the reasons stated by the district court. Alford v. South Carolina Dep’t of Corrections, No. 3:04-cv-23257-CMC (D.S.C. July 17, 2006). 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

* Alford’s failure to object to the magistrate judge’s recommendation as to his race discrimination claims, after proper notice of the consequences of his failure to do so, results in waiver of this issue on review. Wright v. Collins, 766 F.3d 841, 845-46 (4th Cir. 1985); see also Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140 (1985).

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