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50 F.3d 7

Docket No. 94-7263.

Ruffin v. W Murray

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Submitted: January 19, 1995 Decided: February 17, 1995

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1995-02-17

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Domino Sugar Corporation v. Sugar Workers Local Union of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union · Charles Peacock v. Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated

Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1995-02-17

NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.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 Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria. Claude M. Hilton, District Judge. (CA-94-1218)

John Calvin Ruffin, Appellant Pro Se.

Before WILKINS and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and SPROUSE, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

¶1

Appellant appeals the district court's dismissal without prejudice of his 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 (1988) complaint. Appellant's complaint was dismissed because he failed to sufficiently particularize his claims as ordered by the magistrate judge. Under Domino Sugar Corp. v. Sugar Workers Local Union 392, 10 F.3d 1064 (4th Cir.1993), we have examined the grounds for dismissal and determine that Appellant can save this action by amending his complaint in compliance with the magistrate judge's and the district court's orders. Therefore, the order Appellant seeks to appeal is an interlocutory order. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the order is not appealable. This Court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 (1988), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1292 (1988); Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949). Under Domino Sugar, the order here appealed is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

¶2

We dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. 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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