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Date Created: 2023-05-04 18:00:22.797375+00
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Case: 22-51035        Document: 00516737825             Page: 1      Date Filed: 05/04/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit
                                      No. 22-51035
                                    Summary Calendar                                  FILED
                                    ____________                                     May 4, 2023
                                                                                 Lyle W. Cayce
   Kelvin Lionell Wright, II,                                                         Clerk

                                                                    Plaintiff—Appellant,

                                            versus

   United States District Court Western District of
   Texas, San Antonio Division,

                                               Defendant—Appellee.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Western District of Texas
                               USDC No. 5:22-CV-753
                     ______________________________

   Before Barksdale, Higginson, and Ho, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Kelvin Lionell Wright, II, federal prisoner # 39615-380 and
   proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s: 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b)(1)
   dismissal with prejudice of his complaint (under 42 U.S.C. § 1983) as
   frivolous; and dismissal without prejudice pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-51035       Document: 00516737825           Page: 2    Date Filed: 05/04/2023

                                      No. 22-51035

   Procedure 41(b) for failure to prosecute and to comply with a show-cause
   order.
            Wright fails to challenge the reasons for the district court’s dismissal;
   therefore, he abandons any challenge he may have had to the court’s
   judgment.      E.g., Yohey v. Collins, 985 F.2d 222, 225 (5th Cir. 1993)
   (“Although we liberally construe the briefs of pro se appellants, we also
   require that arguments must be briefed to be preserved.” (citation omitted));
   Brinkmann v. Dallas Cnty. Deputy Sheriff Abner, 813 F.2d 744, 748 (5th Cir.
   1987) (stating our court “will not raise and discuss legal issues” that
   appellant “failed to assert”).       Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal as
   frivolous. See 5th Cir. R. 42.2.
            The district court’s dismissal of Wright’s complaint and our dismissal
   of his appeal each count as strikes under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). E.g., Adepegba
   v. Hammons, 103 F.3d 383, 388 (5th Cir. 1996), abrogated in part on other
   grounds by Coleman v. Tollefson, 575 U.S. 532, 534 (2015) (explaining
   Congress intended “both the dismissal in district court and the separate
   dismissal of the appeal as frivolous” count as individual strikes against
   appellant (emphasis in original)). Wright is WARNED: if he accumulates
   a total of three strikes, he may not proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) in any civil
   action or appeal while he is incarcerated or detained in any facility unless he
   is under imminent danger of serious physical injury. See § 1915(g). As
   Wright is not proceeding IFP in the instant appeal, he is also WARNED:
   sanctions—including dismissal, monetary sanctions, and restrictions on his
   ability to file pleadings in this court and any court subject to this court’s
   jurisdiction—may be imposed in response to future frivolous filings.
            DISMISSED;            STRIKE          IMPOSED;           SANCTION
   WARNING ISSUED.

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