Opinion
No. 09-7370.
Submitted: September 10, 2009.
Decided: September 16, 2009.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt. Deborah K. Chasanow, District Judge. (8:09-cv-00879-DKC).
Robert Williams, Appellant Pro Se. Stephanie Judith Lane-Weber, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.
Before KING, DUNCAN, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
Robert Williams, seeks to appeal the district court's order denying his motion for appointment of counsel and his motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. In denying the temporary restraining order, the district court noted that Williams failed to demonstrate a likelihood of irreparable harm or any of the other requirements necessary to obtain preliminary injunctive relief. Williams timely appealed.
This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 91 (2006), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (2006); Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 69 S.Ct. 1221, 93 L.Ed. 1528 (1949). Williams' appeal of the district court's denial of appointment of counsel and of a temporary restraining order, are neither final orders nor appealable interlocutory or collateral orders. To the extent the district court denied a preliminary injunction, which is an appealable order, we conclude that denial was not an abuse of discretion. See Ciena Corp. V. Jarrard, 203 F.3d 312, 322 (4th Cir. 2000).
We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED.