Elizabeth M.r. Gillis, Plaintiff-appellant, v. Kate I. Smith; United States Naval Regional Medical Center;donald J. Fullam; Louis H. Buehl; John Lehman, Secretaryof the Navy; John D. Marriott; B.c. Hines, Claudetteclunan; J. Henninger; Katherine E. Campen; Edwin Meese,attorney General of the U.s.; Charles Brown; Hong Y.chung; Wayne B. Venters; Johnny L. Williams; Noel B.rogers; C. Landis Hackney; Hosea Horne, Jr.; Jim F.sharpe; Doris Gaskin; Donald Erny; U.S. Attorney,defendants-appellees, 798 F.2d 1408 (4th Cir. 1986)

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US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit - 798 F.2d 1408 (4th Cir. 1986) Submitted July 29, 1986. Decided Aug. 26, 1986

Elizabeth M.R. Gillis, appellant pro se.

Harold Robert Showers, Office of the U.S. Atty.; Samuel G. Thompson, Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, for appellees.

E.D.N.C.

DISMISSED.

Before RUSSELL, ERVIN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:


Elizabeth Gillis seeks to appeal the district court's dismissal of her suit filed pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. 5 1346(b). Before us is appellees' motion to dismiss the appeal.

The district court, adopting the recommendation of the magistrate, entered its judgment on December 17, 1985. Gillis filed a notice of appeal on April 13, 1986, far in excess of the 0ixty-day time limit for noting an appeal in a suit to which the United States is a party. Fed. R. App. P. 4(a). Gillis did not file, within thirty days after the expiration of the appeal period, a motion for extension of the filing period. Fed. R. App. P. 4(a) (5); Shah v. Hutto, 722 F.2d 1167 (4th Cir. 1983) (en banc), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 975 (1984). In the absence of a timely notice of appeal or a timely motion for extension of the filing period, we are without jurisdiction to review the case. Hensle v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., 651 F.2d 226, 228 (4th Cir. 1981). We therefore grant the motion and dismiss the appeal.

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