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Case: 22-60372        Document: 00516644478             Page: 1      Date Filed: 02/13/2023

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

                                      No. 22-60372                                   FILED
                                    Summary Calendar                          February 13, 2023
                                    ____________                                Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                     Clerk
   Michael C. Jackson,

                                                                  Petitioner—Appellant,

                                            versus

   FCI-Yazoo City Medium Warden,

                                               Respondent—Appellee.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Southern District of Mississippi
                               USDC No. 3:22-CV-100
                     ______________________________

   Before Smith, Southwick, and Douglas, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Michael Casey Jackson, federal prisoner # 26116-039, appeals the
   dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition challenging his conviction for
   unlawful imprisonment. The district court dismissed the petition because
   Jackson did not satisfy the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The court

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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                                    No. 22-60372

   subsequently denied Jackson’s motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil
   Procedure 59(e).
          Section 2255’s savings clause permits prisoners to challenge the
   validity of their convictions under § 2241 if they show that § 2255’s remedy
   “is inadequate or ineffective.” 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e); see also Reyes-Requena
   v. United States, 243 F.3d 893, 901 (5th Cir. 2001). The savings clause applies
   if the petitioner’s claim (1) “is based on a retroactively applicable Supreme
   Court decision which establishes that the petitioner may have been convicted
   of a nonexistent offense” and (2) “was foreclosed by circuit law at the time
   when the claim should have been raised in the petitioner’s trial, appeal, or
   first § 2255 motion.” Reyes-Requena, 243 F.3d at 904. The district court
   correctly concluded that Jackson does not meet either criterion. Thus,
   Jackson also fails to show an abuse of discretion on his Rule 59(e) motion. See
   Demahy v. Schwarz Pharma, Inc., 702 F.3d 177, 182 (5th Cir. 2012).
          AFFIRMED.

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