Wanda M. Allen v. City of Raleigh Police Department; Captain Murr

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 22-1361
WANDA M. ALLEN,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
CITY OF RALEIGH POLICE DEPARTMENT; CAPTAIN MURR,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at
Raleigh. Richard E. Myers, II, Chief District Judge. (5:21-cv-00471-M)
Submitted: December 20, 2022 Decided: December 22, 2022
Before NIEMEYER and QUATTLEBAUM Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit
Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Wanda M. Allen, Appellant Pro Se. Christopher Jordan Simmons, CITY ATTORNEY’S
OFFICE, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Wanda M. Allen has filed two notices of appeal in her pending civil action. This
court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and certain
interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292; Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v.
Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949). Allen fails to identify the
order from which she seeks to appeal.∗ See Fed. R. App. P. 3(c)(1)(B) (“The notice of
appeal must . . . designate the judgment—or the appealable order—from which the appeal
is taken.”). Moreover, the district court has not yet entered any final or immediately
appealable interlocutory or collateral order in Allen’s civil case. Accordingly, we dismiss
the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. We deny Allen’s motions for appointment of counsel
and to transfer the appeal. 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
∗ Insofar as Allen’s informal brief could be liberally construed as seeking to appeal
the district court’s January 10, 2022, order granting Defendants’ motion for extension of
time to answer or otherwise plead in response to Allen’s complaint, that order is not a final
order or an immediately appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

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