Case Name: Kurt Robert DAVIS, Appellant, v. Warren Darrel BLOUNT, Public Defender, Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-08-25
Citations: 74 F. App'x 675
Docket Number: No. 03-2581
Parties: Kurt Robert DAVIS, Appellant, v. Warren Darrel BLOUNT, Public Defender, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 74
Pages: 675–676

Head Matter:
Kurt Robert DAVIS, Appellant, v. Warren Darrel BLOUNT, Public Defender, Appellee.
No. 03-2581.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 19, 2003.
Decided Aug. 25, 2003.
Kurt Robert Davis, Hot Springs, AR, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Before WOLLMAN, FAGG, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Arkansas inmate Kurt Robert Davis appeals the district court's preservice dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Upon de novo review, see Moore v. Sims, 200 F.3d 1170, 1171 (8th Cir.2000) (per curiam), we conclude that the district court properly dismissed the complaint because Davis's public defender was not a government actor, see Polk County v. Dodson, 454 U.S. 312, 325, 102 S.Ct. 445, 70 L.Ed.2d 509 (1981); Eling v. Jones, 797 F.2d 697, 698-99 (8th Cir.1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 917, 107 S.Ct. 1371, 94 L.Ed.2d 687 (1987). Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
A true copy.
. The Honorable Jimm Larry Hendren, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable Bobby E. Shepherd, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Arkansas.