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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 

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United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 07-1808

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Carl D. Jackson, *

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Appellant, *

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v. * Appeal from the United States

* District Court for the

Jennifer Douglas, Nurse, East * Eastern District of Arkansas.

Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC, *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellee, *

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Spears, Nurse, Arkansas Department of *

Correction; Winford, Manager, East *

Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC; *

Fitzgerald, Manager, East Arkansas *

Regional Unit, ADC; Bybee, Head *

Manager, Correctional Medical *

Services; - Bell, Manager, Pine Bluff *

Unit, ADC, *

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Defendants, *

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Correctional Medical Services, Inc.; *

Kelly Taylor, Nurse, East Arkansas *

Regional Unit; Dorothy Yarbrough, *

Manager, East Arkansas Regional *

Unit, ADC (originally sued as *

Yarbrough), *

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Appellees. *

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The Honorable William R. Wilson, Jr., United States District Judge for the

Eastern District of Arkansas, adopting the report and recommendations of the

Honorable H. David Young, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District

of Arkansas.

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Submitted: March 18, 2008

 Filed: March 21, 2008

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Before WOLLMAN, RILEY, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Arkansas inmate Carl Jackson appeals the district court’s1

 grant of summary

judgment to defendants Jennifer Douglas, Kelly Taylor, Dorothy Yarbrough, and

Correctional Medical Services (CMS) in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Jackson

claimed that defendants violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth

Amendments by showing deliberate indifference to his medical needs while he was

incarcerated at the East Arkansas Regional Unit (EARU). He specifically alleged that

Douglas and Taylor failed to provide ordered medical treatment for boils on his arm

and chest, and that Yarbrough and CMS failed to ensure adequate staffing at EARU

and training of CMS employees.

Having carefully reviewed the record, see Alberson v. Norris, 458 F.3d 762,

765 (8th Cir. 2006), we conclude that summary judgment was proper. Jackson failed

to submit evidence showing that daily treatment of his boils constituted an objectively

serious medical need or an acute or escalating condition which defendants ignored,

and defendants’ evidence indicates that medical staff at EARU provided Jackson with

appropriate medical treatment. See Dulany v. Carnahan, 132 F.3d 1234, 1237-40 (8th

Cir. 1997) (to prevail on Eighth Amendment claim of deliberate indifference, plaintiff

must demonstrate objectively serious medical need that defendants actually knew of

but deliberately disregarded; in face of medical records indicating treatment was

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provided and physician affidavits indicating care provided was adequate, inmate

cannot create question of fact by merely stating he did not feel he received adequate

treatment); Sherrer v. Stephens, 50 F.3d 496, 496-97 (8th Cir. 1994) (per curiam) (to

show deliberate indifference, plaintiff must submit evidence that, inter alia, defendants

ignored acute or escalating condition, given type of injury at issue). Because no

constitutional violation occurred in connection with Jackson’s medical treatment,

Jackson’s claims against CMS and Yarbrough also fail. See Sanders v. Sears,

Roebuck & Co., 984 F.2d 972, 975-76 (8th Cir. 1993) (corporation acting under color

of state law will be held liable only for its own unconstitutional policies that inflict

injury actionable under § 1983); Madewell v. Roberts, 909 F.2d 1203, 1208 (8th Cir.

1990) (liability under § 1983 requires causal link to, and direct responsibility for,

alleged deprivation of rights).

Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s judgment.

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