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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

FILED 

United States Cv· m; of Appe&ls 

'l'i>r.th ~irrnit 

CLYDE C. GOMM, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

v. 

GARY DELAND, Director, Utah State 

Department of Corrections; GERALD 

COOK, Warden, Utah State Prison; BLEN 

FREESTONE, Medical Director; JOHN 

MIDDLETON, M.D.; ERIC CALL, Nurse 

Practitioner; LEONA.Rp HIGLEY; CAPT. 

KARL BARTELL; MARION PAINTER; ROGER 

BURNETT; RONALD BENSON; and CAROL 

HORLACHER, 

Defendants-Appellees. 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

APR 2 2 J991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Cleric 

No. 90-4032 

(D.C. No. 86-C-887A) 

(D. Utah) 

(729 F. Supp. 767) 

Before ANDERSON, TACHA, Circuit Judges, and KANE,** District 

Judge. 

**Honorable John L. 

District Court for 

designation. 

Kane, Senior District Judge, United States 

the District of Colorado, sitting by 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Plaintiff appeals from an adverse judgment entered by the 

district court following a bench trial of his deliberate 

indifference claims brought under 42 u.s.c. § 1983 and the eighth 

and fourteenth amendments. The district court's lengthy opinion, 

reviewing the voluminous evidentiary record and incorporating 

extensive findings pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 52, is published at 

Gomm v. DeLand, 729 F. Supp. 767 (D. Utah 1990). 

Plaintiff argues on appeal that the district court erred in 

determining that defendants did not act with deliberate 

indifference in connection with the care and treatment afforded 

plaintiff for his medical problems while an inmate at the Utah 

State Prison. Since deliberate indifference is a question of 

fact, see,~, Liscio v. Warren, 901 F.2d 274, 276 (2d Cir. 

1990); Greason v. Kemp, 891 F.2d 829, 835 (11th Cir. 1990); Ortiz 

v. City of Imperial, 884 F.2d 1312, 1314 (9th Cir. 1989), we 

review the district court's determination only for clear error, 

see Anderson v. City of Bessemer City, 470 U.S. 564, 573-74 

(1985); Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc., 466 

U.S. 485, 501 (1984). Upon review of the district court's 

decision in light of the arguments and authorities urged by the 

parties, we are not left with a "definite and firm conviction that 

a mistake has been committed," Anderson, 470 U.S. at 573, and, 

accordingly, affirm. 

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The judgment of the United States District Court for the 

District of Utah is AFFIRMED. 

Entered for the Court 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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