Opinion
22-1464
12-08-2022
MARIE THERESE ASSA'AD-FALTAS, MD, MPH, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. JOHN W. KITTREDGE, solely officially as Acting S.C. Chief Justice in S.C. Appellate Case 2021-000815, and solely for declaratory and injunctive relief, Defendant-Appellee.
Marie Therese Assa'ad-Faltas, Appellant Pro Se.
UNPUBLISHED
Submitted: November 21, 2022
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Shiva Vafai Hodges, Magistrate Judge. (3:22-cv-00923-TLW-SVH)
Marie Therese Assa'ad-Faltas, Appellant Pro Se.
Before NIEMEYER, RUSHING, and HEYTENS, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Marie Therese Assa'ad-Faltas seeks to appeal the magistrate judge's text order denying her motion for recusal. 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). The order Assa'ad-Faltas seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order. See In re Virginia Elec. & Power Co., 539 F.2d 357, 364 (4th Cir. 1976); see also Wyatt By & Through Rawlins v. Rogers, 92 F.3d 1074, 1080 (11th Cir. 1996) ("An interlocutory appeal does not lie from the denial of a motion to disqualify a district judge."). Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. We deny all pending motions. 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