Carolyn Taylor v. Walter Todd, No. 08-1372 (4th Cir. 2008)

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 08-1372 CAROLYN YVONNE MURPHY TAYLOR, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. WALTER TODD, Esq., in his official capacity as Assistant City Attorney and his individual capacity; DANA MARIE THYE, Esq., in her official capacity as Assistant City Attorney and her individual capacity; HUNTER P. SWANSON, Esq., in her official capacity as Assistant City Attorney and her individual capacity, Defendants - Appellees, and CHARLES AUSTIN, in his official capacity as City Manager and his individual capacity; DONNIE BALZEIGLER, in his official capacity as Code Enforcement Officer and his individual capacity; CITY OF COLUMBIA, LARRY MCCALL, in his official capacity as Chief Code Enforcement Officer and his individual capacity. Defendants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., Chief District Judge. (3:07-cv-00983-JFA-JRM) Submitted: August 21, 2008 Decided: August 25, 2008 Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, and KING and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Carolyn Yvonne Murphy Taylor, Appellant Pro Se. Robert Gordon Cooper, OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 2 PER CURIAM: Carolyn Yvonne Murphy Taylor appeals the district court s order accepting in part and declining in part the magistrate judge s recommendation, and dismissing her action filed under 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 (2000) and the South Carolina Torts Claims Act. have reviewed the record and find no reversible We error. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. Taylor v. Todd, No. 3:07-cv-00983-JFA-JRM (D.S.C. Feb. 29, 2008). 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. AFFIRMED 3

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