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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

CENTRAL DIVISION 

WALLACE ROBINSON 

ADC #169328 

v. No. 4:19-cv-780-DPM 

MUNYAN, Nurse, Faulkner County 

Detention Center; HUANG, Corporal, 

Shift Supervisor, Faulkner County 

Detention Center; KILPATRICK, 

Detention Officer, Faulkner County 

Detention Center; DOE, Medical Contractor, 

Faulkner County Detention Center; and 

FAULKNER COUNTY 

ORDER 

PLAINTIFF 

DEFENDANTS 

1. The Court partly adopts and partly declines the unopposed 

recommendation, Doc. 12. FED. R. CIV. P. 72(b) (1983 addition to 

advisory committee notes). 

2. The Court adopts the recommendation as to Defendants 

Kilpatrick and Huang. They are dismissed without prejudice. 

3. The Court declines the recommendation as to Defendant 

Munyan. First, it's not clear from the complaint that this is a case about 

a mere disagreement with the course of treatment. That might be so if, 

for example, a doctor at Faulkner County discontinued Robinson's 

blood pressure medications based on an independent medical 

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judgment. But, taking the complaint's allegations as true, Robinson 

had a prescribed course of treatment in place that Munyan deliberately 

ignored. "When an official denies a person treatment that has been 

ordered or medication that has been prescribed, constitutional liability 

may follow." Dadd v. Anoka County, 827 F.3d 749, 757 (8th Cir. 2016). 

Further, at this early stage, Robinson need only plead a plausible 

claim. He has. He says that Munyan deliberately withheld several 

doses of prescribed medication. He also says that he suffered as a 

result. Doc. 2 at 5. Although that allegation is thin, it is a plausible claim 

that the missed medication had a detrimental effect. Robinson's claim 

against Munyan therefore passes screening. 

4. The Magistrate Judge recommended dismissing Robinson's 

claims against Faulkner County and the FCDC Medical Contractor 

because of the lack of an underlying constitutional violation. Because 

the Court concludes that Robinson pleaded a plausible constitutional 

violation, the recommendation about Faulkner County and the Medical 

Contractor is declined without prejudice. 

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Recommendation, Doc. 12, partly adopted and partly declined. 

The Court directs the Clerk to return this case to the Magistrate Judge 

for further proceedings. 

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So Ordered. 

D .P. Marshall Jr. 

United States District Judge 

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