Kesiena Tani v. Brian Cedar, No. 08-2004 (4th Cir. 2009)
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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 08-2004 KESIENA TANI Plaintiff - Appellant, v. BRIAN CEDAR, Lieutenant, Maryland State Police; ST. MARY S COUNTY; ST. MARY S COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT; DAVID ZYLAK, Former St. Mary s County Sheriff; CALVERT COUNTY; CALVERT COUNTY SHERIFF S DEPARTMENT; MIKE EVANS, Calvert County Sheriff; MIKE A. JONES, Deputy, Badge #3958, Calvert County; RICKEY COX, Deputy, Badge #4064, St. Mary s County; SCOTT M. BROWN, Deputy, Badge #4073, Calvert County; KEITH D. MORITZ, Deputy, Badge #0157, St. Mary s County; STEVE JONES, Trooper 1st Class, Badge #9752, Maryland State Police; RICKY THOMAS, 1st Sergeant, Badge #0422, Calvert County; JOHN J. KIRKNER, Deputy 1st Class, Badge #0133, St. Mary s County; CHRIS M. SLOAN, Deputy 1st Class, Badge #6865, Calvert County; JASON ELLIOTT, Deputy 1st Class, Badge #3236, Calvert County; TODD L. FLEENOR, Deputy 1st Class, Badge #0145, St. Mary s County; MIKE P. NAECKER, Deputy 1st Class, Badge #3207, Calvert County; JOHN D. HORNE, Deputy 1st Class, Badge #0021, St. Mary s County; JOHN R. SHOEMAKER, Deputy 1st Class, Badge #0041, St. Mary s County; PHILIP JOSEPH, Sergeant, Badge #0056, St. Mary s County, Defendants - Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Catherine C. Blake, District Judge. (1:07-cv-01924-CCB) Submitted: July 28, 2009 Decided: August 12, 2009 Before GREGORY and AGEE, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Kesiena Tani, Appellant Pro Se. Hugh Scott Curtis, Assistant Attorney General, Donald Eugene Hoffman, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MARYLAND, Pikesville, Maryland; Daniel Karp, KARPINSKI, COLARESI & KARP, P.A., Baltimore, Maryland; John Francis Breads, Jr., Hanover, Maryland, for Appellees. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 2 PER CURIAM: Kesiena dismissing his 42 Tani appeals U.S.C. the ยง 1983 district (2006) court s complaint. reviewed the record and find no reversible error. orders We have Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. Tani v. Cedar, No. 1:07-cv-01924-CCB (D. Md. March 31, 2008 & Aug. 8, 2008) legal before We dispense with oral argument because the facts and contentions the court are adequately and argument presented would not in aid the the materials decisional process. AFFIRMED 3
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