948 F. 2d 1282 - Short v. E Bumgarner
948 F2d 1282 Short v. E Bumgarner
948 F.2d 1282
Otis Lynn SHORT, Plaintiff-Appellant,
and
Jack Wiemer; Martin Russell; Stephen Pace; Bobby Hailey, Plaintiffs,
v.
Michael E. BUMGARNER; John Wrape; Terry Harvel; Nathan
Rice; Aaron J. Johnson, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 91-6115.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted Oct. 28, 1991.
Decided Nov. 13, 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NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.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 Greensboro. Frank W. Bullock, Jr., District Judge. (CA-91-202)
Otis Lynn Short, appellant pro se.
Ronna Dawn Gibbs, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, N.C., for appellees.
M.D.N.C.
DISMISSED.
Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, SPROUSE, Circuit Judge, and CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
OPINION
PER CURIAM:
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Otis Lynn Short appeals the district court's order staying his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) action pending exhaustion of administrative remedies. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (1988) this Court has jurisdiction over appeals from final orders. A final order is one which disposes of all issues in dispute as to all parties. It "ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment." Catlin v. United States, 324 U.S. 229, 233 (1945).
As the order appealed from is not a final order, it is not appealable under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. The district court has not directed entry of final judgment as to particular claims or parties under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b), nor is the order appealable under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (1988). Finally, the order is not appealable as a collateral order under Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949).
Finding no basis for appellate jurisdiction, we deny leave to proceed in forma pauperis and 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.