
    UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rickey G. YOUNG, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 01-2023.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
    Submitted March 14, 2002.
    Decided April 1, 2002.
    Rickey G. Young, Appellant Pro Se. Rick A. Mountcastle, Office of the United States Attorney, Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellee.
    
      Before WILKINS, TRAXLER, and KING, Circuit Judges.
    Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
   PER CURIAM.

Rickey G. Young seeks to appeal the district court’s order granting the Government’s motion for a protective order. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because Young’s notice of appeal was not timely filed.

When the United States is a party to a civil action, the parties are accorded sixty days after entry of the district court’s final judgment or order to note an appeal, see Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(1), unless the district court extends the appeal period under Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(5) or reopens the appeal period under Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(6). This appeal period is “mandatory and jurisdictional.” Browder v. Director, Dep’t of Corrections, 484 U.S. 257, 264, 98 S.Ct. 556, 54 L.Ed.2d 521 (1978) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 361 U.S. 220, 229, 80 S.Ct. 282, 4 L.Ed.2d 259 (1960)).

The district court’s order was entered on the docket on November 20, 2000. Young’s notice of appeal was filed on August 2, 2001. Because Young failed to file a timely notice of appeal or to obtain an extension or reopening of the appeal period, we dismiss the appeal. 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.

DISMISSED.  