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Date Created: 2023-05-02 00:00:34.670351+00
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Case: 22-30575        Document: 00516732768             Page: 1      Date Filed: 05/01/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit
                                      No. 22-30575
                                    Summary Calendar                                  FILED
                                    ____________                                     May 1, 2023
                                                                                 Lyle W. Cayce
   William R. Abbott,                                                                 Clerk

                                                                    Plaintiff—Appellant,

                                            versus

   United States Bureau of Prisons; Sekou Ma’at; Oscar
   Mack; D. Stout; Shelia Lyons,

                                              Defendants—Appellees.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Western District of Louisiana
                              USDC No. 2:21-CV-3890
                     ______________________________

   Before Wiener, Elrod, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         William R. Abbott, federal prisoner # 57819-083, appeals the dismissal
   as frivolous and for failure to state a claim of his complaint alleging that
   unconstitutional administrative procedures at the Federal Correctional
   Center Oakdale led to the denial of requests for compassionate release based
   on the COVID-19 pandemic. Construing Abbott’s complaint as asserting
         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-30575       Document: 00516732768          Page: 2   Date Filed: 05/01/2023

                                     No. 22-30575

   claims under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics,
   403 U.S. 388 (1971), the district court concluded that dismissal was
   appropriate because there was no such cause of action under Bivens.
            Abbott has not briefed any challenge to the district court’s dismissal
   of his Bivens claims or the denial of his postjudgment motion; accordingly, he
   has waived review of those rulings. See Yohey v. Collins, 985 F.2d 222, 224-
   25 (5th Cir. 1993). Rather, he contends that the district court erred in
   construing his complaint as arising under Bivens, where the basis for
   jurisdiction was 28 U.S.C. § 1331 and the governing law was the
   Administrative Procedure Act (APA).            We review the dismissal of a
   complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b)(1) as both frivolous and for failure to
   state a claim de novo. Green v. Atkinson, 623 F.3d 278, 280 (5th Cir. 2010).
            After careful consideration of the record, we discern no error in the
   district court’s dismissal of Abbott’s complaint, whether his claims are
   construed under Bivens or the APA. Accordingly, the judgment of the district
   court is AFFIRMED. Abbott’s motion for appointment of counsel on
   appeal is DENIED. See Ulmer v. Chancellor, 691 F.2d 209, 212-13 (5th Cir.
   1982).

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