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Parties Involved:
Brenda Reagan
Appellee
Robert Slack
Appellant
Samantha Turntine
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 15-1376

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Robert Slack

lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellant

v.

Samantha Turntine, Individual Capacity; Brenda Reagan

lllllllllllllllllllll Defendants - Appellees

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Appeal from United States District Court 

for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis

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 Submitted: July 6, 2015

Filed: July 13, 2015 

[Unpublished]

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Before SHEPHERD, BYE, and KELLY Circuit Judges. 

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PER CURIAM.

Missouri inmate Robert Slack appeals the district court’s adverse grant of 1

summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action asserting Eighth Amendment

The Honorable Charles A. Shaw, United States District Judge for the Eastern 1

District of Missouri.

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deliberate-indifference claims. Upon careful de novo review, we conclude that the

district court’s summary judgment decision was proper. See Peterson v. Koop, 754

F.3d 594, 598 (8th Cir. 2014) (standard of review); Popoalii v. Corr. Med. Servs., 512

F.3d 488, 499 (8th Cir. 2008) (to establish Eighth Amendment violation based on

deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, inmate must show that officials

knew of but deliberately disregarded objectively serious medical need; deliberate

indifference is akin to criminal recklessness and requires more than gross negligence

or mere disagreement with treatment decision); see also Gardner v. Howard, 109 F.3d

427, 430 (8th Cir. 1997) (failure to follow prison policy is not basis for § 1983

liability).

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

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