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United States Court of Appeals
                            FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
                                     ____________
No. 23-5084                                                September Term, 2023
                                                                    1:22-cv-03827-UNA
                                                      Filed On: January 3, 2024
Mike Webb, Major, doing business as Friends
for Mike Webb, doing business as Major Mike
Webb for Congress, doing business as
Angels of Liberty, doing business as Major
Mike Webb for VA,

             Appellant

      v.

Lloyd J. Austin, III, in official Capacity and
United States Department of Defense, DOD,

             Appellees

            ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
                      FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

      BEFORE:       Millett, Pillard, and Garcia, Circuit Judges

                                    JUDGMENT

        This appeal was considered on the record from the United States District Court
for the District of Columbia and on the brief filed by appellant. See Fed. R. App. P.
34(a)(2); D.C. Cir. Rule 34(j). It is

           ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the district court’s orders filed January 12,
2023, and April 12, 2023, be affirmed. The district court’s April 12 order appropriately
dismissed appellant’s case without prejudice. Appellant does not dispute that he failed
to comply with the January 12 order directing him to pay the filing fee or suffer
dismissal. Nor did the district court abuse its discretion in denying appellant’s motions
for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1); Ibrahim v. District
of Columbia, 208 F.3d 1032, 1036 (D.C. Cir. 2000) (“Leave to file a claim in forma
pauperis has always been a matter of grace, a privilege granted in the court’s discretion
. . . .”).
                 United States Court of Appeals
                            FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
                                     ____________
No. 23-5084                                                September Term, 2023

        Pursuant to D.C. Circuit Rule 36, this disposition will not be published. The Clerk
is directed to withhold issuance of the mandate herein until seven days after resolution
of any timely petition for rehearing or petition for rehearing en banc. See Fed. R. App.
P. 41(b); D.C. Cir. Rule 41.

                                       Per Curiam

                                                         FOR THE COURT:
                                                         Mark J. Langer, Clerk

                                                 BY:     /s/
                                                         Daniel J. Reidy
                                                         Deputy Clerk

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