Monica Jeffries v. Prince George's County Department of Housing

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Decided: September 22, 2025
• Docket: 25-1456
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 25-1456

MONICA JEFFRIES,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,

Defendant - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt. Ajmel Ahsen Quereshi, Magistrate Judge. (8:22-cv-00526-AAQ)

Submitted: September 18, 2025 Decided: September 22, 2025

Before THACKER and BENJAMIN, Circuit Judges, and TRAXLER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Monica Jeffries, Appellant Pro Se. Dawn D. Barnett, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY OFFICE OF LAW, Largo, Maryland, for Appellee.

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PER CURIAM:

Monica Jeffries appeals the magistrate judge’s1 order granting Defendant summary

judgment in Jeffries’ 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, denying Jeffries’ “Request to Add an

Additional Claim Against Defendants ‘Uttering,’” and denying Defendant’s motion for a

prefiling injunction.2 We have reviewed the record and find no reversible error.

Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s order. Jeffries v. Prince George’s Cnty. Dep’t

of Hous., No. 8:22-cv-00526-AAQ (D. Md. Feb. 24, 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

1 The parties consented to disposition by a magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). 2 Parties in a civil case must file a notice of appeal “within 30 days after entry of the judgment or order appealed from.” Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A). However, the magistrate judge did not enter “a separate document” after deciding Defendant’s dispositive motion. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 58(a) (“Every judgment . . . must be set out in a separate document.”). Accordingly, Jeffries’ appeal—which was filed more than 30 days but less than three months after the magistrate judge entered the appealed-from order, is timely. See Quinn v. Haynes, 234 F.3d 837, 843 (4th Cir. 2000); see also Ueckert v. Guerra, 38 F.4th 446, 453 (5th Cir. 2022) (“[P]arties have a 180-day window to file a notice of appeal if the district court [did not] enter . . . a separate document.”).