USCA4 Appeal: 23-1792 Doc: 14 Filed: 11/21/2023 Pg: 1 of 2

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 23-1792

MICHAEL A. COFIELD; KAREN A. COFIELD,

Plaintiffs - Appellants,

v.

ANTERO RESOURCES CORPORATION; DAVID I. BEEM; TYRONE L. BEEM; DIANE BEEM; TODD BEEM; CRAIG E. BEEM; SHELLY M. STUBBLEFIELD; MASON COLE BEEM; KATELYN BEEM; SETH DAVID BEEM; CHRISTOPHER JOHN STUBBLEFIELD,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Wheeling. John Preston Bailey, District Judge. (5:23-cv-00215-JPB-JPM)

Submitted: November 16, 2023 Decided: November 21, 2023

Before AGEE and RICHARDSON, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Michael A. Cofield; Karen A. Cofield, Appellants Pro Se. Ancil Glenn Ramey, STEPTOE & JOHNSON PLLC, Huntington, West Virginia; Matthew Bryan Hansberry, Bridgeport, West Virginia, Edmund L. Wagoner, III, HANSBERRY & WAGONER, PLLC, Morgantown, West Virginia, for Appellees.

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PER CURIAM:

Michael and Karen Cofield (“Plaintiffs”) appeal the district court’s order dismissing

as barred by the Rooker-Feldman * doctrine Plaintiffs’ civil action challenging decisions of

the West Virgina Supreme Court of Appeals. On appeal, we confine our review to the

issues raised in the informal brief. See 4th Cir. R. 34(b). Because Plaintiffs’ informal brief

does not challenge the basis for the district court’s disposition, they have forfeited appellate

review of the court’s order. See Jackson v. Lightsey,

(4th Cir. 2014)

(“The informal brief is an important document; under Fourth Circuit rules, our review is

limited to issues preserved in that brief.”). Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s

judgment. Cofield v. Antero Res. Corp., No. 5:23-cv-00215-JPB-JPM (N.D.W. Va. July

10, 2023). We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are

adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the

decisional process.

AFFIRMED

* District of Columbia Ct. of App. v. Feldman,

(1983); Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.,

(1923).

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