99 F.3d 1132
NOTICE: Fourth Circuit Local Rule 36(c) states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.
James Eugene VENABLE, Plaintiff--Appellant,
v.
J.M. JABE, Warden; J.A. Smith, Jr., Regional Director;
P.A. Terrangi, Deputy Warden; W.S. Copeland; C. Tillery,
Counselor; Dr. Marshall; Mr. Lord; K. Hamlin, Nurse;
G.L. Bass, Deputy Warden, Defendants--Appellees.
No. 96-6773.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted Oct. 17, 1996.
Decided Oct. 24, 1996.
James Eugene Venable, Appellant Pro Se. Lance Bradford Leggitt, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, Virginia; David Ernest Boelzner, WRIGHT, ROBINSON, OSTHIMER & TATUM, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.
E.D.Va.
DISMISSED.
Before MURNAGHAN and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM:
Appellant appeals the district court's order dismissing several of the many Defendants from this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) action. 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. § 1291 (1988), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (1988); Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949). The order here appealed is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.
We dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. We deny Appellant's motion for general relief and 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
