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Parties Involved:
Frank Filippelli
Appellee
Jason Edward Johnson
Appellant

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 14-2061

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Jason Edward Johnson

lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellant

v.

Frank Filippelli

lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellee

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Appeal from United States District Court 

for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines

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 Submitted: September 24, 2015

 Filed: December 7, 2015

[Unpublished]

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Before LOKEN, BEAM, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Jason Johnson, a former inmate at the Newton Correctional Facility, appeals

the district court's adverse grant of summary judgment in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 1

The Honorable Ronald E. Longstaff, United States District Judge for the

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Southern District of Iowa.

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action against his attending physician, Dr. Frank Filippelli. Johnson claims the doctor

was deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs. 

The crux of Johnson's suit against Dr. Filippelli focuses on an alleged twentynine day delay in treatment dating from the time Dr. Filippelli first reviewed

Johnson's x-rays that revealed a fractured wrist and immediately referred Johnson to

the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) for further care (August 18,

2011), and the day UIHC later placed Johnson in a cast for the injury (September 16,

2011). Upon de novo review, we conclude that the summary judgment record clearly

established beyond genuine dispute that Dr. Filippelli did not deliberately disregard

Johnson's serious medical needs. We therefore find that summary judgment was

properly granted in Dr. Filippelli's favor. See Marksmeier v. Davie, 622 F.3d 896,

899 (8th Cir. 2010) (grant of summary judgment reviewed de novo); Holden v.

Hirner, 663 F.3d 336, 343 (8th Cir. 2011) ("The level of culpability required to

demonstrate deliberate indifference on the part of prison officialsis equal to criminal

recklessness."). Importantly, as noted by the district court in its thorough and wellreasoned opinion, Johnson presents insufficient, if any, verifying medical evidence

showing that the delay had detrimental effect. Moots v. Lombardi, 453 F.3d 1020,

1023 (8th Cir. 2006) (to prevail on Eighth Amendment claim for deprivation of

medical care, inmate complaining of delay in treatment must offer verifying medical

evidence showing that delay had detrimental effect).

Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district court. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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