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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mikeal Glenn STINE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. D. BERKEBILE, Warden ADX, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 14-1019.
    United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
    March 24, 2014.
    Mikeal Glenn Stine, Florence, CO, pro se.
    Before LUCERO, TYMKOVICH, and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.
   ORDER AND JUDGMENT

CARLOS F. LUCERO, Circuit Judge.

Mikeal Stine appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 application. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.

Stine has a lengthy, litigious history in this circuit. He has accumulated three strikes under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). Stine is also subject to certain filing restrictions in the District of Colorado. See Stine v. Berkebile, No. 13-1477, 557 Fed.Appx. 711, 2014 WL 406752 at *1 & n. 2 (10th Cir.Feb. 4, 2014) (unpublished). He filed this suit, captioned as a § 2241 application, alleging that his current confinement violates the terms of his sentencing orders. The district court stated that the application was an attempt to circumvent previously imposed filing restrictions, and noted that further restrictions had been imposed on Stine with respect to putative § 2241 claims. However, because the latter set of restrictions was imposed after the present application had been filed, the court addressed Stine’s claim. It dismissed Stine’s application because the alleged sentencing restrictions are not included in the documents he referenced.

We have reviewed the documents to which Stine cites in his application. See St. Louis Baptist Temple, Inc. v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp., 605 F.2d 1169, 1172 (10th Cir.1979) (court may take judicial notice of filings in related cases); Prager v. LaFaver, 180 F.3d 1185, 1189 (10th Cir.1999) (court may consider documents referred to in a complaint that are central to the claim). Despite Stine’s conclusory assertions to the contrary, the alleged limitations are not present.

We AFFIRM the district court’s dismissal of Stine’s application. Because Stine has failed to advance “a reasoned, nonfrivolous argument on the law and facts in support of the issues raised on appeal,” DeBardeleben v. Quinlan, 937 F.2d 502, 505 (10th Cir.1991), we DENY his motion to proceed in forma pauperis. 
      
       After examining appellant’s brief and the appellate record, this panel has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2) and 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its persuasive value consistent with Fed. R.App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1.