Joseph Mays v. Jennifer Saad ( 2024 )

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 23-7127
JOSEPH RANDOLPH MAYS,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
JENNIFER SAAD; RICHARD HUDGINS; MS. R. THOMPSON; MR.
MCADAMS; H. WILLIAMS; ANGELA DUNBAR; R. CLEM; OFFICER
TANNER; OFFICER HUDNALL; IAN CONNORS; JOHN DOE; JOHN/JANE
DOES; E. DODRILL,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, at
Martinsburg. Gina M. Groh, District Judge. (3:20-cv-00199-GMG)
Submitted: November 19, 2024 Decided: November 21, 2024
Before QUATTLEBAUM, RUSHING, and BENJAMIN, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Joseph Randolph Mays, Appellant Pro Se.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:
Joseph Randolph Mays appeals the district court’s orders accepting the magistrate
judge’s recommendation to grant the Defendants’ motion to dismiss Mays’s amended
Bivens * complaint and denying Mays’s motion for reconsideration. The court dismissed
the 25 defendants named in both Mays’s original and amended complaint on various
grounds, including both procedural grounds, such as Mays’s failure to effectuate proper
service, and substantive grounds, such as absolute immunity, lack of personal jurisdiction,
and Mays’s failure to state a plausible claim for relief against several of the Defendants.
We have reviewed the record and the bases for the district court’s dismissal of each
defendant and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s orders.
Mays v. Saad, No. 3:20-cv-00199-GMG (N.D. W. Va. Aug. 29, 2023; Oct. 10, 2023). We
further deny Mays’s motion to appoint counsel. 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.
AFFIRMED
*
Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388(1971).
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