United States v. Reamer

Opinion

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 99-2296

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

versus

ROBERT I. REAMER,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Catherine C. Blake, District Judge. (CA- 98-2626-CCB)

Submitted: February 24, 2000 Decided: March 1, 2000

Before MOTZ and KING, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Robert I. Reamer, Appellant Pro Se. William Sears Estabrook, III, Marion Elizabeth Erickson, Teresa Thomas Milton, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c).

PER CURIAM:

Robert Reamer appeals from the district court’s order granting

the government’s motion for summary judgment and reducing to judg-

ment the assessed tax liability against Reamer for the tax years

1981, 1982, and 1983. We have reviewed the record1 and the dis-

trict court’s opinion and find no reversible error. Accordingly,

we affirm on the reasoning of the district court. See United

States v. Reamer, No. CA-98-2626-CCB (D. Md. July 1, 1999).2 We

dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions

are adequately presented in the materials before the court and

argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

1 In this court, Reamer seeks to present additional evidence and arguments that were not presented to the district court. This court cannot consider materials outside the record, see First Nat’l Bank v. Fockler, 649 F.2d 213, 215-16 (4th Cir. 1981), and ordinarily does not consider issues raised for the first time on appeal. See Grossman v. Commissioner, 182 F.3d 275, 281 (4th Cir. 1999). Therefore, we decline to consider the extraneous evidence and issues.

2 Although the district court’s order is marked as “filed” on June 30, 1999, the district court’s records show that it was entered on the docket sheet on July 1, 1999. Pursuant to Rules 58 and 79(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, it is the date the order was entered on the docket sheet that we take as the effective date of the district court’s decision. See Wilson v. Murray, 806 F.2d 1232, 1234-35 (4th Cir. 1986).