United States of America v. Paul Nagy

CORRECTED OPINION
UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v. No. 99-6841
PAUL NAGY,
Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.
Terrence W. Boyle, Chief District Judge.
(CA-98-951-2)
Submitted: October 29, 1999
Decided: November 16, 1999
Corrected Opinion Filed: March 8, 2000
Before MURNAGHAN, MOTZ, and KING,
Circuit Judges.
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Affirmed in part and vacated and remanded in part by unpublished
per curiam opinion.
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COUNSEL
Paul Nagy, Appellant Pro Se. Fenita Morris Shepard, Michael David
Bredenberg, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY,
Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See
Local Rule 36(c).
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OPINION
PER CURIAM:
Paul Nagy appeals the district court's orders denying: (1) his
motion to discontinue the administration of psychotropic medication;
and (2) his motion to dismiss a certificate of mental disease or defect.
We affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.
The district court denied the motion to discontinue the administra-
tion of psychotropic medication on the ground that consideration of
the issue was barred by the doctrine of collateral estoppel. The court
found that the exact issue was decided in a previous action, Nagy v.
Lappin, No. 5:98-CT-282-H (E.D.N.C. Mar. 24, 1999) (unpublished).
However, at issue in that case was the propriety of the involuntary
administration of medication during Nagy's previous incarceration at
FCI-Butner between October 1996 and March 1997. In the present
motion, Nagy sought the discontinuation of psychotropic medication,
whose administration began shortly after he was readmitted to Butner
in August 1998. Because the core issues in the two matters are not
identical, the district court erroneously applied the doctrine of collat-
eral estoppel. See Tuttle v. Arlington County Sch. Bd., 189 F.3d 431,
437 & n.6 (4th Cir. 1999). We therefore vacate this portion of the dis-
trict court's order and remand for consideration of Nagy's motion on
the merits.
With respect to that portion of the district court's order denying
Nagy's motion to dismiss, we have reviewed the record and the dis-
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trict court's order and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm
on the reasoning of the district court. See United States v. Nagy, No.
CA-98-951-2 (E.D.N.C. June 16, 1999).
We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal conten-
tions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and
argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED IN PART; VACATED AND REMANDED IN PART
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