Robert Payne v. Michelle Lee, No. 16-2100 (4th Cir. 2017)
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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 16-2100 ROBERT THOMAS PAYNE, Plaintiff – Appellant, v. MICHELLE K. LEE, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office; RINALDI RADA, United States Patent and Trademark Office; SARAH MONFELDT, United States Patent and Trademark Office; TOM HAMMOND, United States Patent and Trademark Office; STEPHEN JOHNSON, United States Patent and Trademark Office; KATHY MATECKI, United States Patent and Trademark Office; ANNE MENDEZ, United States Patent and Trademark Office; CAPTAIN EVERETTE BRADFORD, United States Patent and Trademark Office; PATROL VICTOR HARVEY, United States Patent and Trademark Office; KELLY HENSLEY, United States Patent and Trademark Office; KEVIN LEWIS, United States Patent and Trademark Office; JOE BURNS, United States Patent and Trademark Office; ALEXANDRIA POLICE AGENTS, Police Department, Alexandria Virginia; HOMELAND SECURITY AGENTS, Homeland Security; INSPECTOR GENERAL, Department of Commerce; JAMES PAYNE, United States Patent and Trademark Office; SARAH HARRIS, United States Patent and Trademark Office; FREDERICK STECKLER, United States Patent and Trademark Office; DOMINICK MURACCO, Department of Commerce, OIG; CECELIA WILSON, United States Patent and Trademark Office; KAREN W. KARLINCHAK, United States Patent and Trademark Office; MARK KRIEGER, Department of Commerce, OIG; JENNIFER R. SEIFERT, United States Patent and Trademark Office; MARIA CAMPO, United States Patent and Trademark Office; SHARREIFF NASID, United States Patent and Trademark Office; BRIAN CEDAR, United States Patent and Trademark Office; ANDREW FAILE, United States Patent and Trademark Office; AGENT COREY JOHNSON, Home Land Security, Defendants - Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria. Claude M. Hilton, Senior District Judge. (1:15-cv-01268-CMH-IDD) Submitted: February 16, 2017 Decided: Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. DUNCAN, February 21, 2017 Circuit Judge, and Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Robert Thomas Payne, Appellant Pro Se. Dennis Carl Barghaan, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 2 PER CURIAM: Robert Thomas Payne appeals the district court’s order denying relief on his complaint filed pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). error. We have reviewed the record and find no reversible Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. Payne v. Lee, No. 1:15-cv-01268-CMH-IDD (E.D. Va. July 25, 2016). facts and materials legal before We dispense with oral argument because the contentions are adequately this and argument court presented would not in the aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED 3
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