Kenneth Dippel v. SC Farm Bureau Mutual ( 2020 )

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 20-1841
KENNETH D. DIPPEL,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
SOUTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
Defendant - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Florence.
R. Bryan Harwell, Chief District Judge. (4:16-cv-01605-RBH)
Submitted: December 22, 2020 Decided: December 28, 2020
Before NIEMEYER, FLOYD, and RICHARDSON, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Kenneth D. Dippel, Appellant Pro Se. Stephen Peterson Groves, Sr., BUTLER SNOW,
LLP, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Kenneth D. Dippel seeks to appeal the district court’s orders adopting the
recommendation of the magistrate judge and denying Dippel’s motion for summary
judgment and denying Dippel’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion challenging the district court’s
previous partial grant of summary judgment to the Appellee. The Appellee has moved to
dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final
orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292;
Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949).
The orders Dippel seeks to appeal are neither final orders nor appealable interlocutory or
collateral orders. Accordingly, we grant Appellee’s motion and dismiss the appeal for lack
of jurisdiction. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions
are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the
decisional process.
DISMISSED
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