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Date Created: 2023-01-10 19:00:53.050588+00
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Case: 21-51223        Document: 00516604400             Page: 1      Date Filed: 01/10/2023

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

                                                                                     FILED
                                       No. 21-51223                            January 10, 2023
                                     ____________
                                                                                Lyle W. Cayce
   Bryan Farish,                                                                     Clerk

                                                                   Plaintiff—Appellant,

                                            versus

   Matthew Lynx, Contract Psychiatrist, Kerr County Jail; Ms. J.
   Cavin, Mental Health Supervisor, Kerr County Jail; Andrew
   Blizzard, Assistant Jail Administrator, Kerr County Jail; Sylvia
   Foraker, Jail Administrator, Kerr County Jail; Cris Lalonde, Chief
   Deputy, Kerr County Sheriff Department,

                                              Defendants—Appellees.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Western District of Texas
                               USDC No. 5:21-CV-680
                     ______________________________

   Before Haynes, Engelhardt, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Bryan Farish, Texas prisoner # 2352989, moves for leave to proceed
   in forma pauperis (IFP) from the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint
   as frivolous and for failure to state a claim.             In his IFP motion and

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 21-51223      Document: 00516604400           Page: 2    Date Filed: 01/10/2023

                                     No. 21-51223

   incorporated brief, Farish conclusorily asserts that the district court erred in
   determining in its order denying IFP that his appeal of the dismissal of his
   § 1983 amended complaint was not taken in good faith and in determining
   that he was no longer confined. However, the district court’s amended order
   denying IFP omitted the original order’s statement that Farish was no longer
   confined, and Farish has otherwise failed to brief any challenge to the district
   court’s reasons for disposing of his claims as frivolous and for failure to state
   a claim and for certifying that his appeal was not taken in good faith. As a
   result, he has abandoned any challenge to these determinations, and he has
   not presented a nonfrivolous issue for appeal. See McGarrah v. Alford, 783
   F.3d 584, 584 (5th Cir. 2015); Yohey v. Collins, 985 F.2d 222, 224-25 (5th Cir.
   1993); Brinkmann v. Dallas Cnty. Deputy Sheriff Abner, 813 F.2d 744, 748 (5th
   Cir. 1987). Accordingly, his motion to proceed IFP is DENIED, and the
   appeal is DISMISSED as frivolous. See Baugh v. Taylor, 117 F.3d 197, 202
   n.24 (5th Cir. 1997); 5th Cir. R. 42.2.
          This dismissal of this appeal as frivolous and the district court’s
   dismissal as frivolous and for failure to state a claim each count as a strike
   under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). See McGarrah, 783 F.3d at 584. Farish is
   WARNED that if he accumulates three strikes, he will be “barred from
   proceeding IFP in any civil action or appeal filed while he is incarcerated or
   detained in any facility unless he is under imminent danger of serious physical
   injury.” Id. at 585; § 1915(g).

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