Jihad v. Harvey

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 96-7611
TAHRIM SUPREME C. JIHAD, a/k/a Vincent Edward
Little,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
versus
JAMES HARVEY, Regional Administrator; LAURIE
F. BESSINGER, Warden; W. ROUSE; JOYCE BROWN,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Charleston. Cameron McGowan Currie, District
Judge. (CA-96-1970-2-22AJ, CA-96-1971-2-22AJ)
Submitted: May 1, 1997 Decided: May 7, 1997
Before WIDENER and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Tahrim Supreme C. Jihad, Appellant Pro Se. Michael Stephen Pauley,
LIDE, MONTGOMERY, POTTS & MEDLOCK, P.C., Columbia, South Carolina,
for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Appellant appeals an order denying his motion for appointment
of counsel. 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 (1994), and certain inter-
locutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (1994); 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 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
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