Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. USC, No. 19-1655 (4th Cir. 2019)

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 19-1655 MARIE THERESE ASSA’AD-FALTAS, on behalf of herself and the class she represents, Plaintiff - Appellant, and SORAYA F. FARES, Plaintiff, v. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA; ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA; CAROL NANCE, Defendants - Appellees. No. 19-1662 MARIE THERESE ASSA’AD-FALTAS, Plaintiff - Appellant, and SORAYA F. FARES, Plaintiff, v. U. S. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; THOMAS P. FISCHER, Former District Director, U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; UNNAMED IMMIGRATION EMPLOYEES, in their official capacity, Defendants - Appellees, and JOAN M. ALTEKRUSE, in her individual capacity, Defendant. No. 19-1663 MARIE THERESE ASSA’AD-FALTAS, a/k/a Doctor Faltas, MD, MPH, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA; CAROL NANCE, in her individual and official capacities; BOBBY GIST, in his individual capacity; DAVID SHERIDAN, in his individual capacity; PATRICK BARRESI, in his individual capacity; JUDY WEEKS, in her individual capacity; J. O’NEAL HUMPHRIES, in his individual capacity; LAWRENCE DARK, in his individual capacity; JOAN M. ALTEKRUSE, in her individual capacity; ERNEST ALTEKRUSE, in his individual capacity; RICHARD CRESWICK, in his individual capacity; THE LAW FIRM OF NEXSEN, PRUET, JACOBS & POLLARD, LLP, in its corporate capacity; VICTORIA ESLINGER, in her individual capacity; SUSAN MCWILLIAMS, in her individual capacity; JOHN TRUSSELL, in his individual capacity; EDWARD TURBEVILLE, in his individual capacity, Defendants - Appellees, and RANDALL MEADS CHASTAIN, in his individual capacity; THE STATE NEWSPAPER, in its corporate capacity; KATHERINE GRAY, individually and as agent of the State Newspaper; CLAUDIA SMITH BRINSON, individually and as 2 agent of the State Newspaper; PATRICK BLANCHAT, individually and as agent of the State Newspaper; THOMAS MCLEAN, individually and as agent of the State Newspaper; WILLIAM RHONE, individually and as agent of the State Newspaper; CHRIS RILEY; UNKNOWN NAMED DEFENDANTS, Defendants. Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Terry L. Wooten, Senior District Judge. (3:94-cv-01578-TLW; 3:93-cv-03303TLW; 3:95-cv-01521-TLW) Submitted: December 19, 2019 Decided: December 23, 2019 Before NIEMEYER, AGEE, and QUATTLEBAUM, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Marie Therese Assa’ad-Faltas, Appellant Pro Se. Andrew Lindemann, LINDEMANN, DAVIS & HUGHES, PA, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee University of South Carolina. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 3 PER CURIAM: In these consolidated cases, Marie Therese Assa’ad-Faltas appeals the district court’s orders denying as untimely her Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motions to reopen the respective underlying district court actions, as well as the court’s orders denying her subsequently filed Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motions and motions to reassign. We have reviewed the records in the underlying federal actions and discern no error. We thus affirm the district court’s various orders for the reasons stated by the district court. See Assa’adFaltas v. Univ. of S. C., No. 3:94-cv-01578-TLW (D.S.C. April 14, 2019 & May 17, 2019); Assa’ad-Faltas v. U. S. Immigration & Naturalization Serv., No. 3:93-cv-03303-TLW (D.S.C. April 14, 2019 & May 17, 2019); and Assa’ad-Faltas v. Attorney Gen. of Va., No. 3:95-cv-01521-TLW (D.S.C. April 14, 2019 & May 17, 2019). We deny all pending motions in these appeals. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED 4

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