Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina, the state of, No. 13-1277 (4th Cir. 2013)
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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 13-1277 MARIE THERESE ASSA AD-FALTAS, MD, MPH, Petitioner - Appellant, v. SOUTH CAROLINA, THE STATE OF, Respondent Appellee, and COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, CITY OF, Respondent. No. 13-1278 MARIE THERESE ASSA AD-FALTAS, MD, MPH, Petitioner - Appellant, v. SOUTH CAROLINA, THE STATE OF, Respondent Appellee, and COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, CITY OF, Respondent. No. 13-1595 MARIE THERESE ASSA AD-FALTAS, Petitioner - Appellant, v. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA; THE CITY OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, hereinafter the city , Respondents Appellees. Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Aiken. Terry L. Wooten, Chief District Judge. (1:13-cv-00034-TLW; 1-13-cv-00035-TLW; 1:13-cv-00032TLW) Submitted: July 18, 2013 Decided: July 22, 2013 Before WILKINSON, MOTZ, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Marie Therese Assa ad-Faltas, Appellant Pro Se. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 2 PER CURIAM: In these consolidated appeals, Marie Therese Assa adFaltas seeks to appeal the district court s orders accepting the recommendations of the magistrate judge and denying relief on her petitions seeking federal habeas relief. Assa ad-Faltas has also filed motions for summary disposition and for oral argument via video-conference in Appeal Nos. 13-1277 and 13-1278, and in Appeal No. 13-1595, she has filed motions to be declared the prevailing party and awarded costs, to exceed the informal brief length limitations, and for an extension of time to file her informal brief. The appealable orders unless Assa ad-Faltas a circuit certificate of appealability. A certificate of seeks justice to appeal or judge are issues not a 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) (2006). appealability will not issue absent a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) (2006). relief on the demonstrating district debatable merits, that court s or a prisoner reasonable assessment wrong. When the district court denies Slack satisfies jurists this would of the v. McDaniel, standard find constitutional 529 U.S. by that the claims is 473, 484 (2000); see Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336-38 (2003). When the district court denies relief on procedural grounds, the prisoner must demonstrate both that the dispositive procedural 3 ruling is debatable, and that the petition states a debatable claim of the denial of a constitutional right. Slack, 529 U.S. at 484-85. We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Assa ad-Faltas Accordingly, exceed the although informal has we not made grant brief the requisite Assa ad-Faltas s length limitations showing. motions and for to an extension of time to file her informal brief in Appeal No. 131595, we deny certificate dispense of with contentions are Assa ad-Faltas s appealability oral argument adequately and remaining dismiss because presented in motions, the the the deny appeals. facts a We and legal materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process. DISMISSED 4
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