United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 14-1624

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Olando Juwan Thomas

lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellant

v.

James Banks, Warden, Varner Unit, ADC; Joe Page, III, Treatment Warden,

Varner Unit, ADC; Gary Ralls, Chaplain, Varner Unit, ADC; H. Powers, Chaplain,

Varner Unit, ADC; D. Davis, Lt., Varner Unit, ADC

lllllllllllllllllllll Defendants - Appellees

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 Appeal from United States District Court 

for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff

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 Submitted: November 17, 2014

Filed: November 25, 2014 

[Unpublished]

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Before WOLLMAN, BYE, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges. 

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PER CURIAM.
Olando Juwan Thomas appeals the district court’s1

 adverse grant of summary

judgment on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint. After de novo review, see Beaulieu v.

Ludeman, 690 F.3d 1017, 1024 (8th Cir. 2012), we reject Thomas’s arguments for

reversal as follows.

We agree with the district court that Thomas did not create a genuine issue of

material fact as to whether Lt. D. Davis was deliberately indifferent, as Thomas’s

medical authorization did not restrict him from work or from wearing sandals at work,

and he did not submit evidence of the work environment or risks of injury from

working in such shoes. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a); Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825,

834, 837-38, 847 (1994) (official violates Eighth Amendment if he knows of and

disregards substantial risk of serious harm to inmate health or safety); Nelson v. Corr.

Med. Servs., 583 F.3d 522, 528-29 (8th Cir. 2009) (en banc) (outlining two-prong

deliberate-indifference test); Choate v. Lockhart, 7 F.3d 1370, 1374 (8th Cir. 1993)

(officials are deliberately indifferent when they knowingly compel prisoners to

perform physical labor that is beyond their strength, dangerous to health, or unduly

painful; mere negligence or inadvertence, however, does not satisfy deliberateindifference test). Thomas also failed to establish supervisory liability against Warden

James Banks, see Williams v. Davis, 200 F.3d 538, 538-39 (8th Cir. 2000) (per

curiam) (absent constitutional violation, there is no basis for § 1983 liability against

supervisors); and his allegation that Banks improperly investigated his grievance

failed to state a claim, see Buckley v. Barlow, 997 F.2d 494, 495 (8th Cir. 1993) (per

curiam) (prison officials’ failure to process or investigate grievances, without more,

is not actionable under § 1983). The magistrate judge properly entered final judgment

under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) without first offering Thomas an opportunity to object, see

Roell v. Withrow, 538 U.S. 580, 585 (2003) (referral under § 636(c) gives magistrate

judge full authority over dispositive motions, conduct of trial, and entry of final

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The Honorable Joe J. Volpe, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern

District of Arkansas, to whom the case was referred for final disposition by consent

of the parties pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c).

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judgment, without district court review); and properly entered final judgment without

sua sponte allowing Thomas to amend his complaint.

The judgment is affirmed.

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