Jeffrey Corporal v. Officer Donaldson

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 24-6159
JEFFREY CORPORAL,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
OFFICER DONALDSON; LIEUTENANT PENNINGTON; BUTLER, Assistant
Warden; WARDEN WEBER; COMMISSIONER HILL; SECRETARY GREEN;
SECURITY CHIEF ARNOLD,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore.
Deborah K. Chasanow, Senior District Judge. (1:20-cv-03357-DKC)
Submitted: April 29, 2026 Decided: May 28, 2026
Before NIEMEYER, AGEE, and HEYTENS, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Jeffrey Corporal, Appellant Pro Se. Anthony G. Brown, Attorney General, Jessica E.
Burns, 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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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:
Jeffrey Corporal appeals the district court’s orders denying relief on his 42 U.S.C.
§ 1983 complaint.* This case returns to us after a limited remand related to the timeliness
of Corporal’s notice of appeal. The district court determined that Corporal satisfied Fed.
R. App. P. 4(a)(5)’s requirements for an extension of the appeal period, and we are satisfied
of our jurisdiction over this appeal.
Confining our review of the record to the issues raised in Corporal’s informal brief,
we have reviewed the record and find no reversible error. 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.”). Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s orders. Corporal v. Pennington,
No. 1:20-cv-03357-DKC (D. Md. July 30, 2021; Sep. 22, 2023; Jan. 12, 2024). 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 dismissed Corporal’s prior appeal of the district court’s first dismissal order
because we found that the court had not adjudicated all of Corporal’s claims. See Corporal
v. Pennington, No. 21-7177, 2023 WL 110556, at *1 (4th Cir. Jan. 5, 2023).

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