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Parties Involved:
Vanessa Boydston
Appellee
Mary Chandler
Appellee
E. Conley
Appellee
Correctional Medical Services
Appellee
Dianne T. Czarnecki
Appellee
J. Sulltrop
Appellee
Anthony White
Appellant

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 07-1605

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Anthony White, *

*

Appellant, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the Eastern

* District of Missouri.

Vanessa Boydston, Nurse Pract., *

Correctional Medical Services; * [UNPUBLISHED]

Dianne T. Czarnecki, Nurse, *

Correctional Medical Services; *

Mary Chandler, Nurse, Correctional *

Medical Services; E. Conley, *

Regional Medical Director, in *

individual and official capacity; *

J. Sulltrop, Health Services *

Administrator, in individual and *

official capacity; Correctional *

Medical Services, Medical Care *

Provider, *

*

Appellees. *

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Submitted: February 15, 2008

 Filed: March 21, 2008

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Before MURPHY, COLLOTON, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

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The Honorable Stephen N. Limbaugh, United States District Judge for the

Eastern District of Missouri.

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In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, Missouri inmate Anthony White appeals the

district court’s1

 adverse grant of summary judgment and interlocutory orders. Having

carefully reviewed the record and considered White’s arguments, we conclude that the

district court properly granted summary judgment on his claims asserting that

defendants were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs in treating his

toenail fungus. See Johnson v. Hamilton, 452 F.3d 967, 971-72 (8th Cir. 2006) (de

novo standard of review). 

We further decline to decide whether the district court improperly dismissed

defendant Vanessa Boydston as untimely served, see Moore v. Jackson, 123 F.3d

1082, 1085-86 (8th Cir. 1997), because we conclude that a remand for further

proceedings against her would be futile, as White cannot show that Boydston was

deliberately indifferent to his medical needs, cf. Thornburgh v. Am. Coll. of

Obstetricians & Gynecologists, 476 U.S. 747, 756 n. 7 (1986) (remand not required

in cases of futility), overruled on other grounds by Planned Parenthood of

Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992); LeMay v. U.S. Postal

Serv., 450 F.3d 797, 799 (8th Cir. 2006) (court may affirm district court’s dismissal

on any basis supported by record).

We also conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying

White’s motion for appointment of counsel, see Abdullah v. Gunter, 949 F.2d 1032,

1035 (8th Cir. 1991) (abuse-of-discretion review standard and factors), or grossly

abuse its discretion in denying White’s motions to compel, see Heart of Am. Grain

Inspection Serv., Inc. v. Missouri Dep’t of Ag., 123 F.3d 1098, 1107 (8th Cir. 1997)

(gross-abuse-of-discretion review standard).

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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