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Date Created: 2010-04-26 07:17:00+00
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Case: 09-50639     Document: 00511012895          Page: 1    Date Filed: 01/26/2010

            IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                     FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT  United States Court of Appeals
                                                     Fifth Circuit

                                                  FILED
                                                                          January 26, 2010
                                     No. 09-50639
                                   Summary Calendar                    Charles R. Fulbruge III
                                                                               Clerk

ANTHONY RAY JOHNSON,

                                                   Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

TEXAS BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES,

                                                   Defendant-Appellee

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Western District of Texas
                             USDC No. 1:08-CV-823

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, CLEMENT, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
        Anthony Ray Johnson sued the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles under
42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking damages for the revocation of his parole. The district
court dismissed the suit as frivolous because the Board is immune from suit
under the Eleventh Amendment and because Johnson did not assert that the
Board’s decision was reversed on direct appeal, expunged by executive order,
declared invalid by a state tribunal, or called into question by a federal court’s
issuance of a writ of habeas corpus as required by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S.

        *
         Pursuant to 5TH CIR . R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR .
R. 47.5.4.
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477, 486-87 (1994). The court denied leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP)
on appeal and certified that the appeal was not taken in good faith.
      Johnson seeks this court’s leave to proceed IFP. He asserts that he is
entitled to damages because a jury acquitted him of the offense that formed the
basis of the Board’s revocation decision. The district court correctly determined
that his suit is barred by the Eleventh Amendment and Heck. See McGrew v.
Tex. Bd. of Pardons & Paroles, 47 F.3d 158, 161 (5th Cir. 1995).         Because
Johnson fails to show that he will raise a nonfrivolous issue on appeal, the
outstanding motions are DENIED, and the appeal is DISMISSED as frivolous.
See Baugh v. Taylor, 117 F.3d 197, 202 (5th Cir. 1997); 5th Cir. R. 42.2.

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