Kristin Schelin v. Karl Malloy

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Decided: December 1, 2025
• Docket: 25-1973
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 25-1234

KRISTIN E. SCHELIN; MARK A. WATSON,

Plaintiffs - Appellees,

v.

KARL LINARD MALLOY,

Defendant - Appellant.

No. 25-1973

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond. Roderick Charles Young, District Judge. (3:24-cv-00477-RCY; 3:24-cv- 00890-RCY)

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Before WYNN and RICHARDSON, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Karl Linard Malloy, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

In these consolidated appeals, Karl Linard Malloy seeks to appeal the district court’s

orders dismissing for lack of jurisdiction his appeals from two bankruptcy court orders

denying his motions for protective orders. Because the bankruptcy court’s orders did not

“definitively dispose of discrete disputes” in the bankruptcy case, Ritzen Grp. Inc. v.

Jackson Masonry, LLC, 589 U.S. 35, 37 (2020), and because Malloy failed to establish that

exceptional circumstances justified interlocutory appeals of these orders, the district court

properly determined that it lacked jurisdiction over the appeals. Accordingly, we affirm

the district court’s orders. Schelin v. Malloy, No. 3:24-cv-00477-RCY (E.D. Va. Feb. 6,

2025); Schelin v. Malloy, No. 3:24-cv-00890-RCY (E.D. Va. July 18, 2025). 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