873 F.2d 1441
Unpublished Disposition
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James Clifton WALSH, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Joseph E. HESS, George E. Honts, III, Michael S. Irvine,
Majorie O'Roark, Shenandoah Intelligence Agency,
Inc., Defendants-Appellees,
and
Town of Buena Vista, Virginia, Alan Buzzard, Philip
Patterson, Commonwealth of Virginia, Defendants.
No. 88-2940.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
April 18, 1989.
Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied June 9, 1989.
James Clifton Walsh, appellant pro se.
Neil Anthony Gordon McPhie, Office of the Attorney General, William Fain Rutherford, Jr., Frank Kenneth Friedman, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, Frank Anthony Mika, for appellees.
Before K.K. HALL and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM:
James Clifton Walsh appeals the district court's dismissal of several claims in his 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 action. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
Under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 this Court has jurisdiction over appeals from final orders. A final order is one which disposes of all issues in dispute as to all parties. It "ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment." Catlin v. United States, 324 U.S. 229, 233 (1945).
As the order appealed from is not a final order, it is not appealable under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291. The district court has not directed entry of final judgment as to particular claims or parties under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b), nor is the order appealable under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1292. Finally, the order is not appealable as a collateral order under Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949).
Finding no basis for appellate jurisdiction, we dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. We dispense with oral argument because the dispositive issues have been decided authoritatively.
DISMISSED.
