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Antonio ELLIS, Appellant, v. Ransom EVANS, Lt., Varner Super Max, ADC (originally sued as R. Evans); Marshall Gonder, Sgt., Varner Super Max, ADC (originally sued as M. Gonder); Samuel Baker, Sgt., Varner Super Max, ADC (originally sued as S. Baker); Rickey McCarrell, Sgt., Varner Super Max, ADC (originally sued as Rickey McCarroll), Appellees.
    No. 04-3925.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted Jan. 6, 2006.
    Decided Jan. 19, 2006.
    Antonio Ellis, Grady, AR, pro se.
    Chilesa Jones, Attorney General’s Office, Little Rock, AR, for Appellees.
    Before BYE, MCMILLIAN, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.
    
      
      . The Honorable Theodore McMillian died January 18, 2006. This opinion is being filed by the remaining judges of the panel pursuant to 8th Cir. Rule 47E.
    
   PER CURIAM.

Arkansas inmate Antonio Ellis appeals the district court’s adverse judgment on a jury verdict in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Because Ellis did not respond to this court’s show-cause order, his motion for preparation of a trial transcript was denied, and without a trial transcript it is impossible to address Ellis’s argument on appeal that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. See Schmid v. United Bhd. of Carpenters & Joiners of Am., 827 F.2d 384, 386 (8th Cir.1987) (per curiam), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 1071, 108 S.Ct. 1041, 98 L.Ed.2d 1004 (1988). Ellis also asserts that the jury incorrectly determined the witnesses’ credibility, but we will not second-guess a jury’s credibility determinations. See Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. John Labatt Ltd., 89 F.3d 1339, 1346 (8th Cir.1996), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 1109, 117 S.Ct. 944, 136 L.Ed.2d 833 (1997).

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. 
      
      . The Honorable Jerry W. Cavaneau, 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).