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Parties Involved:
Bob Counter
Appellee
William Andrew Curtis
Appellant
Warren T. Diesslin
Appellee
Judy Ann Fender
Appellee
Walter Kautzky
Appellee
Dennis Kleinsasser
Appellee
Seals
Appellee
Curt Thomas
Appellee

Document Text:

• FILED 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS United Stam C.ourt of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

WILLIAM ANDREW CURTIS, ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

) 

v. ) 

) 

WALTER KAUTZKY; DENNIS KLEINSASSER;) 

WARREN T. DIESSLIN; BOB COUNTER; ) 

CURT THOMAS; JUDY ANN FENDER; ) 

MR. SEALS, ) 

) 

Defendants-Appellees. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

AUG 11991 

&OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 91-1094 

(D.C. No. 89-Z-1715) 

(D. Colorado) 

Before LOGAN, MOORE, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

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bas determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

a.a&ist th.a: 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 William Andrew Curtis, a prison inmate, filed a 42 

U.S.C. S 1983 claim against several prison officials alleging that 

they displayed "deliberate indifference" to his medical needs 

* 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 estoppal. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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after he slipped and fell on the kitchen floor in the Buena Vista 

Correction Facility, Buena Vista, Colorado. Defendants filed a 

motion to dismiss and a motion for summary judgment. The 

magistrate judge, after conducting an evidentiary hearing, made 

explicit findings on the care plaintiff received and recommended 

that judgment be granted in favor of all defendants. The district 

court affirmed. 

On appeal, plaintiff challenges the magistrate judge's 

findings on the care he received following his fall. In making 

this claim, plaintiff has the burden of showing that the 

magistrate judge's findings are clearly erroneous. See Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 52(a); Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, 

Inc., 466 U.S. 485, 498 (1984). We have obtained and reviewed the 

tape of the hearing before the magistrate judge. We are satisfied 

that the findings are amply supported in the record and are not 

clearly erroneous. 

Plaintiff also challenges the district court's rejection of 

his negligence claims against defendants for failure to maintain 

safe conditions in the kitchen. We agree with the district court 

that such claims of negligence do not raise a constitutional claim 

against defendants. See Davidson v. Cannon, 474 U.S. 344, 347-48 

(1986). 

AFFIRMED. 

The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

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