Demetrick Roberts v. Jane Doe #1, No. 22-2065 (8th Cir. 2023)
Annotate this CaseCourt Description: [Per Curiam - Gruender, Melloy, and Stras, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil Rights. Dismissal of plaintiff's civil rights complaint affirmed without comment.
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United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 22-2065 ___________________________ Demetrick Roy Roberts lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellant v. Jane Doe #1, Muscatine County Jail Nurse; Jane Doe #2, Muscatine County Jail Doctor lllllllllllllllllllllDefendants - Appellees ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central ____________ Submitted: February 2, 2023 Filed: February 7, 2023 [Unpublished] ____________ Before GRUENDER, MELLOY, and STRAS, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. Demetrick Roberts appeals the district court’s1 dismissal of his complaint against medical staff at the Muscatine County Jail. Having carefully reviewed the 1 The Honorable Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa. record and the parties’ arguments on appeal, we conclude that the complaint failed to state a claim. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6); Kulkay v. Roy, 847 F.3d 637, 641, 643 (8th Cir. 2017) (reviewing the failure to state a claim de novo and noting that “deliberate indifference” requires more than “negligence or inadvertence”); see also Christy v. Miulli, 692 N.W.2d 694, 702 (Iowa 2005) (explaining that equitable estoppel requires “misrepresentation or concealment”). We accordingly affirm the judgment of the district court. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. ______________________________ -2-
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