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929 F.2d 694

Docket No. 91-7008.

Portee v. Tollison Md

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Submitted March 4, 1991. Decided March 25, 1991.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Wright v. Collins · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Ford v. Wainwright

Opinion by Per Curiam ·

NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.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. Clyde H. Hamilton, District Judge. (CA-90-828-15B)

Clarence E. Portee, appellant pro se.

David L. Morrison, Nauful & Ellis, P.A., Columbia, S.C., for appellees.

D.S.C., 753 F.Supp. 184.

AFFIRMED.

Before WIDENER and K.K. HALL, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

¶1

Clarence E. Portee appeals district court's order dismissing this 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 action. Appellant's action was referred to a magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 636(b)(1)(B). The magistrate judge recommended that relief be denied and advised appellant that the failure to file timely objections to this recommendation could waive appellate review of a district court order based upon the recommendation. Despite this warning, appellant failed to object to the magistrate judge's recommendation.

¶2

This Court has held that the timely filing of objections to a magistrate judge's recommendation is necessary to preserve appellate review of the substance of that recommendation where the parties have been warned that failure to object will waive appellate review. Wright v. Collins, 766 F.2d 841, 846 (4th Cir.1985) (quoting Carr v. Hutto, 737 F.2d 433, 434 (4th Cir.1984), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 1019 (1985)). See generally United States v. Schronce, 727 F.2d 91 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 467 U.S. 1208 (1984). Appellant has waived appellate review by failing to file timely objections after receiving proper notice. We accordingly affirm the judgment of the district court. 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

AFFIRMED.

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