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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 

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UNITED STATES 

TENTH 

CARROL RICHARD OLSON, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

vs. 

HAROLD COLEMAN, Sheriff, and 

FIL T_ .J 

COURT OF APPEALS United Statel Cou::-~of Appeal• 

Ter,th ·cireuit 

CIRCUIT 

MAR 12 1993 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 92-3334 

(D.C . No. 92-3001) 

(D . Kan. ) 

PAUL CHRIS NELSON, County Attorney, 

Defendants-Appellees. 

CARROL RICHARD OLSON, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

vs. 

HAROLD COLEMAN, Sheriff, and 

ALEC BETH, County Correctional 

Administrator, 

Defendants-Appellees. 

Nos. 92-3335, 92-3369 

(D .C. No. 91 -3339) 

(D. Kan . ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before TACHA, BALDOCK and KELLY, Circuit Judges.** 

Plaintiff-appellant Carrol Richard Olson appeals the district 

* 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 . 

** After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has detennined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. ~ Fed. R. App . P. 34 {a); 10th .Cir. R. 34.1.9. The cause therefore is ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

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court's order granting sununary judgment to defendants in 

consolidated civil rights proceedings. Our jurisdiction arises 

under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and we affirm. 

Mr. Olson filed two separate 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaints, 

alleging deprivation of constitutional rights and cruel and 

unusual punishment. The complaints alleged a beating by a prison 

guard, denial of necessary medical treatment, and unsanitary and 

unhealthful conditions at the Southeast Kansas Regional 

Correctional Facility. The district court consolidated the two 

complaints and ordered a Martinez report. 

Following preparation of the Martinez report , which contained 

sworn affidavits, the defendants moved for sununary judgment. We 

find no issues of material fact that would preclude entry of 

sununary judgment in favor of defendants. Mr. Olson's response to 

the Martinez report consisted of little more than repetition of 

his original complaint, was highly conclusory and unsupported by 

any affidavits, and was unsworn . Because Mr. Olson failed to 

submit a sworn complaint or any affidavits or other evidence that 

would satisfy Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(e), the district court could rely 

on the Martinez report, which contradicted Mr. Olson's conclusory 

and unsworn allegations. See Mosier v. Maynard , 937 F.2d 1521, 

1524 (10th Cir. 1991); Hall v. Bellmen, 935 F.2d 1106, 1110 (10th 

Cir. 1991) . 

Even assuming arguendo that Mr. Olson was struck, the 

physical contact he describes was de minimus, and does not 

constitute a use of force "'"repugnant to the conscience of 

mankind"'" violative of the Eighth Amendment. Hudson v. 

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McMillian, 112 S. Ct. 995, 1000 (1992) (quoting Whitley v. Albers, 

475 U.S. 312, 327 (1986) (quoting Estelle v . Gamble, 429 U.S . 97, 

100 (1976))). Mr. Olson's allegations of unhealthful prison 

conditions also fail to rise to the level of a deprivation of 

constitutional rights. While Mr. Olson's living conditions may 

have been uncomfortable and difficult to adjust to, they fall 

within the range of permissible inmate facilities. Finally, Mr. 

Olson's claim of denial of medical care must fail in light of 

testimony that Mr. Olson refused medical care while at the 

Southeastern Kansas Regional Correctional Facility. Prison 

officials demonstrated no deliberate indifference to serious 

medical needs. See Estelle, 429 U.S. at 104 . 

AFFIRMED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

Paul J. Kelly, Jr. 

Circuit Judge 

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