Brandon Brown v. SAMUEL SULLIVAN, Individually and as Acting President of Paine College; PAINE COLLEGE

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 15-1450
BRANDON BROWN,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
SAMUEL SULLIVAN, Individually and as Acting President of
Paine College; PAINE COLLEGE,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Greenville. G. Ross Anderson, Jr., Senior
District Judge. (6:14-cv-04376-GRA)
Submitted: April 22, 2016 Decided: May 5, 2016
Before NIEMEYER, SHEDD, and WYNN, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Fletcher N. Smith, Jr., LAW FIRM OF FLETCHER N. SMITH, JR., LLC,
Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellant. Michael M.
Shetterly, OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C.,
Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Brandon Brown seeks to appeal the district court’s orders
transferring this case to the District of Georgia and denying
reconsideration of that order. This court may exercise
jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2012),
and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C.
§ 1292 (2012); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus.
Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949). The orders Brown seeks
to appeal are neither final orders nor appealable interlocutory
or collateral orders. See In re Carefirst of Md., Inc., 305
F.3d 253, 256 (4th Cir. 2002). We do not find persuasive
Brown’s argument that our holding in Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v.
Iraq, 666 F.3d 205, 209-10 (4th Cir. 2011), applies to salvage
this appeal. 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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