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Case: 22-50430            Document: 00516606949             Page: 1      Date Filed: 01/11/2023

                 United States Court of Appeals
                      for the Fifth Circuit
                                         ____________                             United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                           Fifth Circuit

                                          No. 22-50430
                                                                                         FILED
                                                                                   January 11, 2023
                                         ____________
                                                                                    Lyle W. Cayce
   Scott Graves,                                                                         Clerk

                                                                       Plaintiff—Appellant,

                                                versus

   Brittany Hartley, Sergeant of Corrections for Alfred D. Hughes Unit,

                                                   Defendant—Appellee.
                         ______________________________

                         Appeal from the United States District Court
                              for the Western District of Texas
                                   USDC No. 6:22-CV-465
                         ______________________________

   Before Haynes, Engelhardt, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
             Scott Graves, Texas prisoner # 2023036, moves to appeal in forma
   pauperis (IFP) from the dismissal of his civil rights complaint brought under
   42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court concluded that Graves was barred from
   proceeding IFP because he had three strikes under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) and
   had not established that he was under imminent danger of serious physical
   injury.

             _____________________
             *
                 This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-50430      Document: 00516606949           Page: 2    Date Filed: 01/11/2023

                                     No. 22-50430

          The conclusory and uncorroborated allegations in Graves’s pleadings
   are insufficient to make the showing required to avoid application of the three
   strikes bar under § 1915(g). See Baños v. O’Guin, 144 F.3d 883, 884-85 (5th
   Cir. 1998). Accordingly, his motion for leave to proceed IFP on appeal is
   denied. Because the facts surrounding the IFP decision are inextricably
   intertwined with the merits of the issue on appeal, his appeal is dismissed as
   frivolous. See Baugh v. Taylor, 117 F.3d 197, 202 & n.24 (5th Cir. 1997); 5th
   Cir. R. 42.2.
          Graves is warned that he is barred under § 1915(g) from proceeding
   IFP in any civil action or appeal filed in a court of the United States while he
   is incarcerated or detained in any facility unless he is under imminent danger
   of serious physical injury. Any pending or future frivolous or repetitive filings
   in this court or any court subject to this court’s jurisdiction may subject him
   to additional sanctions, including monetary sanctions and limits on his access
   to this court and any court subject to this court’s jurisdiction.
          MOTION           DENIED;            APPEAL       DISMISSED            AS
   FRIVOLOUS; SANCTION WARNING ISSUED.

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