USCA4 Appeal: 25-1260 Doc: 27 Filed: 12/01/2025 Pg: 1 of 2

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 25-1260

TIGRESS SYDNEY ACUTE MCDANIEL,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LTD.; SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES, INC.; SUN PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICARE LIMITED; CVS PHARMACY, INC.; DOES,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Graham C. Mullen, Senior District Judge. (3:24-cv-00823-GCM)

Submitted: November 25, 2025 Decided: December 1, 2025

Before WYNN and RICHARDSON, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel, Appellant Pro Se. Jason Michael Reefer, PIETRAGALLO GORDON ALFANO BOSICK & RASPANTI LLP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellees.

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PER CURIAM:

Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel appeals the district court’s order granting

Defendants’ motions to dismiss her civil action pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(5), for

insufficient service of process, and pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6), for failure to state a claim

upon which relief can be granted, and denying McDaniel’s motion to amend her

complaint. * We have reviewed the record and discern no error in the district court’s

analysis under either Rule 12(b)(5) or Rule 12(b)(6), and likewise hold that the district

court did not abuse its discretion in denying McDaniel’s motion for leave to amend her

complaint. See Drager v. PLIVA USA, Inc.,

(4th Cir. 2014) (providing

standard of review for denials of leave to amend). In addition to challenging the merits of

the district court’s rulings, McDaniel also asserts that the presiding judge was unfairly

biased against her but, upon review of the record, we discern no basis for such a claim. See

Liteky v. United States,

(1994) (explaining that “judicial rulings alone

almost never constitute a valid basis for a bias or partiality motion”).

Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s order. McDaniel v. Sun Pharm. Indus.

Ltd., No. 3:24-cv-00823-GCM (W.D.N.C. Mar. 13, 2025). 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

In this court, McDaniel has filed motions for sanctions and to amend her reply. *

While we grant the motion to amend, we deny the motion for sanctions. We likewise deny Defendants’ motion for attorney’s fees and costs related to the sanctions motion.

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