Jerry Champion v. Wendy Kelley, No. 12-1419 (8th Cir. 2012)

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Court Description: Prisoner case - Prisoner Civil Rights. District court did not err in granting defendants summary judgment on plaintiff's Section 1983 deliberate indifference to medical needs claims as the record established there was no indifference to a serious medical need, much less deliberate indifference.

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United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 12-1419 ___________________________ Jerry Champion, lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellant, v. Wendy Kelley, Deputy Director of Health, Arkansas Department of Correction; Walter Holloway, Infirmary Manager, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC; Amanda Norman, Nurse, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC, lllllllllllllllllllll Defendants - Appellees. ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Helena ____________ Submitted: December 4, 2012 Filed: December 26, 2012 [Unpublished] ____________ Before LOKEN, BOWMAN, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. After Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) inmate Jerry Champion did not receive two of three daily doses of pain medication on January 26, 2010, he filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action asserting claims of deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs against the nurse who dispensed his medication, the infirmary director, and ADC s Deputy Director of Health. The district court1 granted defendants motions for summary judgment, and Champion appeals. Following de novo review, see Beaulieu v. Ludeman, 690 F.3d 1017, 1024 (8th Cir. 2012), we agree with the district court that Champion s deliberate-indifference claims fail, because the record established there was no indifference to a serious medical need, much less deliberate indifference. See Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 104-05 (1976) (deliberate indifference includes intentional interference with prescribed treatment; inadvertent or negligent failure to provide adequate medical care cannot be said to constitute unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain ); Luckert v. Dodge Cnty., 684 F.3d 808, 817 (8th Cir. 2012) (prison supervisors are not liable under § 1983 on respondeat superior theory), petition for cert. filed, (Oct 24, 2012) (No. 12-523); Gardner v. Howard, 109 F.3d 427, 430 (8th Cir. 1997) (no § 1983 liability for violation of prison policy). Accordingly, we affirm, see 8th Cir. R. 47B, and we deny all of the pending motions. ______________________________ 1 The Honorable Jerome T. Kearney, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, to whom the case was referred for final disposition by consent of the parties pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). -2-

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