Kenneth J. Warn v. Janay Sears

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 24-2145
KENNETH J. WARN,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
JANAY SEARS,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt.
Peter J. Messitte, Senior District Judge. (8:23-cv-02466-PJM)
Submitted: January 23, 2025 Decided: January 28, 2025
Before WILKINSON, WYNN, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Janay Sears, Appellant Pro Se. David I. Schoen, DAVID I. SCHOEN, ATTORNEY AT
LAW, Montgomery, Alabama, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Janay Sears seeks to appeal the district court’s order granting in part Appellee
Kenneth Warn’s motion to compel discovery and for sanctions and ordering her to pay the
expense of a hired court reporter and the fees Warn’s attorney incurred preparing for a
deposition she did not attend. Warn moves to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
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, 545-47 (1949). The order Sears seeks to
appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.
Accordingly, we grant Warn’s motion to dismiss and 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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