Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. v. Saundra S. Brooke

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 22-1646
VANDERBILT MORTGAGE AND FINANCE, INC.,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
SAUNDRA S. BROOKE,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore.
Stephanie A. Gallagher, District Judge. (1:22-cv-00737-SAG)
Submitted: October 13, 2022 Decided: October 17, 2022
Before NIEMEYER and AGEE, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Saundra S. Brooke, Appellant Pro Se. Kevin Roger Hildebeidel, COHN, GOLDBERG &
DEUTSCH, LLC, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Saundra S. Brooke seeks to appeal the district court’s order remanding the
underlying civil action against Brooke to the state court from which it was removed. “[T]he
law as it stands today provides that an order remanding a case to the State court from which
it was removed is not reviewable on appeal or otherwise, except that an order remanding a
case to the State court from which it was removed pursuant to [28 U.S.C. §] 1442 or
[§] 1443 . . . shall be reviewable by appeal or otherwise.” BP P.L.C. v. Mayor & City
Council of Balt., 141 S. Ct. 1532, 1536-37 (2021) (cleaned up). The district court remanded
the case to state court after determining that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction. We
therefore are without jurisdiction to review the remand order.
Accordingly, we 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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