William Bradford v. Michelle Whitworth, No. 06-3095 (8th Cir. 2007)
Annotate this CaseCourt Description: Prisoner case - prisoner civil rights. Defendant's summary judgment affirmed without comment.
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United States Court of Appeals FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ___________ No. 06-3095 ___________ William Bradford, Appellant, v. Michelle Whitworth, Appellee. * * * * Appeal from the United States * District Court for the * Eastern District of Missouri. * * [UNPUBLISHED] * ___________ Submitted: September 7, 2007 Filed: September 17, 2007 ___________ Before MURPHY, SMITH, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges. ___________ PER CURIAM. William Bradford, a detainee at the Missouri Sexual Offender Treatment Center, appeals the district court s1 adverse grant of summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 suit against Michelle Whitworth, a registered nurse. Having carefully reviewed the record, see Senty-Haugen v. Goodno, 462 F.3d 876, 885 (8th Cir. 2006), cert. denied, 127 S. Ct. 2048 (2007) (standard of review), we agree with the district court that Nurse Whitworth s decision to place restrictions on Bradford for refusing to obey certain rules was a professional decision entitled to deference, see Youngberg 1 The Honorable Charles A. Shaw, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri. v. Romeo, 457 U.S. 307, 323-25 (1982); and that Bradford was provided adequate procedural protections, see Senty-Haugen, 462 F.3d at 887-88 (due process requirements are flexible and specific to each situation; most important mechanisms for ensuring due process are notice of factual basis leading to deprivation and fair opportunity for rebuttal). Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. ______________________________ -2-
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