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Case: 22-60625        Document: 00516783915             Page: 1      Date Filed: 06/12/2023

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

                                                                                       FILED
                                      No. 22-60625
                                                                                     June 12, 2023
                                    Summary Calendar
                                    ____________                                     Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                          Clerk
   Roy Mosley,

                                                                   Petitioner—Appellant,

                                            versus

   Warden Steven Reiser,

                                               Respondent—Appellee.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Southern District of Mississippi
                               USDC No. 3:21-CV-394
                     ______________________________

   Before Smith, Southwick, and Douglas, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Roy Mosley, federal prisoner # 10585-424, appeals the district court’s
   dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition. He broadly asserts that he has a
   claim for relief under Section 2241 because his right to due process was
   violated when he was removed from home confinement under the Elderly
   Offender Pilot Program (“EOPP”), see 34 U.S.C. § 60541(g)(1), (2), without

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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                                    No. 22-60625

   receiving the procedural protections required by the Bureau of Prisons’
   policies and Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539 (1974).
          We review the district court’s legal conclusions de novo, Jeffers v.
   Chandler, 253 F.3d 827, 830 (5th Cir. 2001), and “may affirm the denial of
   habeas relief on any ground supported by the record,” Scott v. Johnson, 227
   F.3d 260, 262 (5th Cir. 2000). The court properly construed Mosley’s due
   process claim as a civil rights claim. See Melot v. Bergami, 970 F.3d 596, 599
   (5th Cir. 2020). He shows no error in the dismissal.
          Mosley also contends that he exhausted administrative remedies. The
   district court determined that he failed to exhaust his claims involving the
   Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) and
   his claim that he was not given a reason for his removal from home
   confinement under the EOPP. Because Mosley expressly abandons his
   CARES Act claims, we do not reach the exhaustion question with regard to
   those claims. Nor do we consider whether he exhausted his claim involving
   the reason for his removal from home confinement under the EOPP. Even if
   he did exhaust that issue, the claim was not cognizable under Section 2241.
   See Melot, 970 F.3d at 599; Scott, 227 F.3d at 262.
          AFFIRMED.

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