Jeffries v. Mercedes-Benz Credit Corp. ( 2006 )

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 06-1880
MONICA JEFFRIES,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
and
BENNY THOMAS,
Plaintiff,
versus
MERCEDES-BENZ CREDIT CORPORATION; TRANS UNION;
EXPERIAN; EQUIFAX; DAIMLERCHRYSLER FINANCIAL
SERVICES AMERICAS, LLC,
Defendants - Appellees,
and
AMERICA SERVICE CENTER,
Defendant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Greenbelt. Alexander Williams, Jr., District Judge.
(8:04-cv-00976-AW)
Submitted: December 21, 2006 Decided: December 28, 2006
Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and KING, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Monica Jeffries, Appellant Pro Se. Richard D. London, Susan E.
Spiess, RICHARD D. LONDON & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Silver Spring,
Maryland; Mark E. Kogan, Christopher N. Jones, KOGAN, TRICHON &
WERTHEIMER, P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Alan Barry
Sternstein, Sandy David Baron, SHULMAN, ROGERS, GANDAL, PORDY &
ECKER, P.A., Rockville, Maryland; John J. Friedline, KILPATRICK &
STOCKTON, L.L.P., Atlanta, Georgia, Nathan Daniel Adler, NEUBERGER,
QUINN, GIELEN, RUBIN & GIBBER, P.A., Baltimore, Maryland, for
Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:
Monica Jeffries appeals the district court’s order
granting summary judgment in favor of Mercedes-Benz Credit
Corporation, Inc., DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Americas,
Trans Union, LLC, Experian Information Solutions, Inc., and Equifax
on her claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and for various
common law tort causes of action. We dismiss the appeal for lack
of jurisdiction because the notice of appeal was not timely filed.
Parties are accorded thirty days after the entry of the
district court’s final judgment or order to note an appeal, Fed. R.
App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), unless the district court extends the appeal
period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5), or reopens the appeal period
under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6). This appeal period is “mandatory
and jurisdictional.” Browder v. Dir., Dep’t of Corr., 434 U.S.
257, 264 (1979) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 361 U.S. 220,
229 (1960)).
The district court’s order granting summary judgment in
favor of defendants was entered on the docket on June 27, 2006.
The notice of appeal was filed by Jeffries on August 2, 2006.
Because Jeffries failed to file a timely notice of appeal or obtain
an extension or reopening of the appeal period, we deny Jeffries’s
motion to proceed in forma pauperis and dismiss the appeal. We
dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions
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are adequately presented in the materials before the court and
argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
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