929 F2d 693 Oliver v. Johnson

929 F.2d 693
Unpublished Disposition

Langston OLIVER, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Aaron JOHNSON, Sergeant Reid, Supt. Osborne, Regie Weisner,
Boyd Bennett, Mr. Hamilton, Director of Prisons,
Defendants-Appellees.

No. 90-6437.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Submitted March 4, 1991.
Decided March 25, 1991.

NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Salisbury. Frank W. Bullock, Jr., District Judge. (CA-89-586-S)

Langston Oliver, appellant pro se.

Lucien Capone, III, Assistant Attorney General, Raleigh, N.C., for appellees.

M.D.N.C.

DISMISSED.

Before WIDENER and K.K. HALL, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:


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Langston Oliver noted this appeal outside the 30-day appeal period established by Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)(1), and failed to move for an extension of the appeal period within the additional 30-day period provided by Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)(5). The time periods established by Fed.R.App.P. 4 are "mandatory and jurisdictional." Browder v. Director, Dep't of Corrections, 434 U.S. 257, 264 (1978) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 361 U.S. 220, 229 (1960)). Appellant's failure to note a timely appeal or obtain an extension of the appeal period deprives this Court of jurisdiction to consider this case. We therefore dismiss the appeal. 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.

2

DISMISSED.