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Parties Involved:
John Anderson
Appellee
Arkansas Partnership Program
Appellee
Albert Kittrell
Appellee
Konis
Appellee
Gabriel Wade Mills
Appellant

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 06-3552

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Gabriel Wade Mills, *

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Appellant, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the Eastern

* District of Arkansas.

John Anderson, Evaluations, *

Arkansas State Hospital; * [UNPUBLISHED]

Albert Kittrell, Doctor, Arkansas *

State Hospital; Konis, Dr., Medical *

Doctor, Arkansas State Hospital; *

Arkansas Partnership Program, *

Medical Doctor, *

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Appellees. *

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Submitted: March 26, 2008

 Filed: March 31, 2008

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Before WOLLMAN, RILEY, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Appellate Case: 06-3552 Page: 1 Date Filed: 03/31/2008 Entry ID: 3418280
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The Honorable George Howard, Jr., late a United States District Judge for the

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

Honorable J. Thomas Ray, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of

Arkansas.

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Gabriel Mills appeals the district court’s1 grant of summary judgment for

defendants in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, in which Mills sought to challenge his

commitment to the Arkansas State Hospital (ASH) under the Arkansas Act 911

Program and alleged that he received inadequate treatment for a medical condition

while he was a patient at ASH and later at another Act 911 Program facility. We

conclude that the district court did not err in granting summary judgment to

defendants. See Anderson v. Larson, 327 F.3d 762, 767 (8th Cir. 2003) (de novo

review). First, Mills’s challenge to his commitment is not properly brought in this

section 1983 action, cf. Preiser v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 475, 489-90 (1973) (state

prisoner’s challenge to fact or duration of confinement must be brought through

habeas corpus after exhaustion of state remedies); and second, the medical records

show that Mills received reasonable testing and medication for his medical

complaints, see Logan v. Clarke, 119 F.3d 647, 649-50 (8th Cir. 1997) (prison doctors

were not deliberately indifferent where they treated prisoner on numerous occasions

and offered sensible medication and treatment); Kayser v. Caspari, 16 F.3d 280, 281

(8th Cir. 1994) (plaintiff’s self-diagnosis alone will not suffice to establish serious

medical condition); Coleman v. Rahija, 114 F.3d 778, 784 (8th Cir. 1997) (failure to

establish “the detrimental effect of delay in treatment precludes a claim of deliberate

indifference”).

The judgment is affirmed.

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Appellate Case: 06-3552 Page: 2 Date Filed: 03/31/2008 Entry ID: 3418280