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25 F.3d 1040

Docket No. 94-6164.

Montgomery v. Evatt Scdc

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Submitted April 21, 1994. Decided May 19, 1994.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1994-05-19

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Domino Sugar Corporation v. Sugar Workers Local Union of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · Pearsall

Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1994-05-19

NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. G. Ross Anderson, Jr., District Judge. (CA-93-538-3)

Michael Wayne Montgomery, appellant pro se.

Donald John Zelenka, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Columbia, SC, for appellees.

D.S.C.

DISMISSED.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, MICHAEL, Circuit Judge, and CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

¶1

Appellant appeals from a district court order accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and dismissing without prejudice his request for habeas corpus relief on the ground that appellant's remedy for his alleged subjection to cruel and unusual punishment exists under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 (1988). A plaintiff may not appeal from a dismissal without prejudice where he may continue his action in the district court by amending his complaint. Domino Sugar v. Sugar Workers Local 392, 10 F.3d 1064, 1066-67 (4th Cir.1993). Since, in this case, the appellant may continue his action by requesting relief under Sec. 1983, appellate review is foreclosed.

¶2

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal. 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.

¶3

DISMISSED.

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