Paige Martineau v. Joel Wier; Diane Wier; Richard Guest

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 20-2035
PAIGE MARTINEAU,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
JOEL WIER; DIANE WIER; RICHARD GUEST,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at
Columbia. Sherri A. Lydon, District Judge. (3:16-cv-02650-SAL)
Submitted: May 31, 2022 Decided: July 1, 2022
Before NIEMEYER, HARRIS, and RUSHING, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Paige Martineau, Appellant Pro Se. Bess J. DuRant, Thornwell Forrest Sowell, III,
SOWELL & DURANT LLC, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Paige Martineau appeals the district court’s order on remand granting Defendants’
Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss Martineau’s complaint alleging fraudulent
inducement of a settlement agreement and several tort claims under South Carolina law.*
The district court determined on remand that Martineau’s tort claims were barred under
South Carolina’s three-year statute of limitations and that Martineau could not establish
any plausible theory of recovery for her fraudulent inducement claim.
Confining our review to the issues raised in the informal brief, see 4th Cir. R. 34(b);
Jackson v. Lightsey, 775 F.3d 170, 177 (4th Cir. 2014) (“The informal brief is an important
document; under Fourth Circuit rules, our review is limited to issues preserved in that
brief.”), we have reviewed the record and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm
the district court’s order. Martineau v. Wier, No. 3:16-cv-02650-SAL (D.S.C.
Sept. 9, 2020). 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
* We previously remanded this case to the district court after vacating the district
court’s prior grant of summary judgment to Defendants. See Martineau v.
Wier, 934 F.3d 385, 387, 397 (4th Cir. 2019).

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