Lynn Snyder v. Maryland Department of Transportation, State Highway Administration

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 22-2306
LYNN SNYDER,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, STATE HIGHWAY
ADMINISTRATION; STATE OF MARYLAND; DARION BRANHAM; DANIEL
HOUCK,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore.
Catherine C. Blake, Senior District Judge. (1:21-cv-00930-CCB)
Submitted: September 28, 2023 Decided: October 2, 2023
Before NIEMEYER, THACKER, and RUSHING, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
ON BRIEF: Neil R. Lebowitz, LEBOWITZ LAW FIRM, Columbia, Maryland, for
Appellant. Anthony G. Brown, Attorney General, DeNisha A. Watson, Carolyn M. Frank,
Assistant Attorney General, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
MARYLAND, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Lynn Snyder appeals the district court’s orders (1) granting Defendants’ motion to
dismiss or, in the alternative, for summary judgment on Snyder’s employment and tort
claims; and (2) denying Snyder’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion. We have reviewed the
record and conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion when it converted
Defendants’ motion to a summary judgment motion. See E.W. by & through T.W. v.
Dolgos, 884 F.3d 172, 178 n.2 (4th Cir. 2018) (“We generally review a district court’s
conversion of a motion to dismiss to a summary judgment motion for abuse of discretion.”).
Further, we discern no error in the district court’s decision to grant Defendants summary
judgment and thus affirm the district court’s orders. Snyder v. Md. Dep’t of Transp., State
Highway Admin., No. 1:21-cv-00930-CCB (D. Md. Mar. 31, 2022; Nov. 22, 2022). 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

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