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823 F.2d 547

Docket No. 86-6805

Messer v. Ellis

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Submitted Jan. 28, 1987. Decided June 29, 1987.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1987-06-29

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

Relies on Lay v. Bernett

Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1987-06-29

NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.

J. C. Messer, appellant pro se.

G. Michael Barnhill, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, for appellee.

Before RUSSELL, WIDENER and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

¶1

A review of the record and the district court's opinion adopting the magistrate's recommendation discloses that this appeal from its order denying relief under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 is without merit. Because the dispositive issues recently have been decided authoritatively, we dispense with oral argument and affirm the judgment below on the reasoning of the district court. Messer v. Ellis, C/A No. 84-296-CRT (E.D.N.C., Oct. 22, 1986).

¶2

AFFIRMED.

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