Ben Pourbabai v. John Fitzgerald, III, No. 20-2101 (4th Cir. 2021)

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 20-2101 BEN POURBABAI, Debtor - Appellant, v. JOHN P. FITZGERALD, III, Trustee - Appellee, and JANET MARIE MEIBURGER, Chapter 7 Trustee, Trustee. No. 20-2121 BEN POURBABAI, Debtor - Appellant, v. KYLE E. SKOPIC, Creditor - Appellee. No. 20-2136 BEN POURBABAI, Debtor - Appellant, v. JOHN P. FITZGERALD, III, Trustee - Appellee, and JANET MARIE MEIBURGER, Chapter 7 Trustee, Trustee. No. 20-2138 BEN POURBABAI, Debtor - Appellant, v. UNKNOWN, Party-in-Interest. No. 20-2152 In re: BEN POURBABAI, Debtor. ----------------------------------------BEN POURBABAI, 2 Debtor - Appellant, v. JOHN P. FITZGERALD, III, Trustee - Appellee, and JANET MARIE MEIBURGER, Chapter 7 Trustee, Trustee. No. 21-1434 BEN POURBABAI, Debtor - Appellant, v. JOHN P. FITZGERALD, III, Trustee - Appellee, and JANET MARIE MEIBURGER, Chapter 7 Trustee, Trustee. Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria. Rossie David Alston, Jr., District Judge, and Liam O’Grady, Senior District Judge. (1:20-cv-00910-LO-MSN; 1:20-cv-00849-LO-MSN; 1:20-cv-00015-LO-MSN; 1:20-cv-00735-LO-MSN; 1:19-cv-00401-RDA-JFA) Submitted: October 19, 2021 Decided: October 21, 2021 3 Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, AGEE, Circuit Judge, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Ben Pourbabai, Appellant Pro Se. Hugh Michael Bernstein, Baltimore, Maryland, Michael T. Freeman, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRUSTEE, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 4 PER CURIAM: In these consolidated cases, Ben Pourbabai appeals the district court’s orders denying a number of postjudgment motions and imposing a prefiling injunction. We have reviewed the records and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. Pourbabai v. Fitzgerald, No. 1:20-cv-00910-LO-MSN (E.D. Va. Sept. 4, 2020 & entered Sept. 8; filed Sept. 17, 2020 & entered Sept. 18, 2020); Pourbabai v. Skopic, No. 1:20-cv-00849-LO-MSN (E.D. Va. filed Sept. 4, 2020 & entered Sept. 8, 2020; filed Sept. 17, 2020 & entered Sept. 18, 2020); Pourbabai v. Fitzgerald, No. 1:20-cv-00015-LO-MSN (E.D. Va. Sept 4, 2020 & entered Sept. 8, 2020; filed Sept. 17, 2020 & entered Sept. 18, 2020; Mar. 30, 2021); Pourbabai v. Unknown, No. 1:20-cv00735-LO-MSN (E.D. Va. Sept. 4, 2020 & entered Sept. 8, 2020; filed Sept. 17, 2020 & entered Sept. 18, 2020); In re Pourbabai, No. 1:19-cv-00401-RDA-JFA (E.D. Va. Sept. 9, 2020). We deny as moot Pourbabai’s motion to proceed pro se and 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 5

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