Case Name: Wasim AZIZ, Appellant, v. Dora SCHRIRO; Larry Rowley; Paul V. Brown; Brenda Short, Guard, NECC; Larry Barnes, Guard, NECC; Michael Dempsey, Asst. Superintendent, NECC; Deb Creason, Director of Nursing, NECC; E. Wallace, Health Care Administrator, NECC; S. Hallazgo, Doctor and Medical Director, NECC; Correctional Medical Services; Ansel Card, Superintendent, TCC; Arnold Mantle, Grievance Officer, ACC; Vivian Watts, Guard, TCC; Benny Bertgen, Guard, TCC; Linda Alexander; Michael Groose, Assistant Director of Prisons, Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2001-06-05
Citations: 6 F. App'x 565
Docket Number: No. 01-1658
Parties: Wasim AZIZ, Appellant, v. Dora SCHRIRO; Larry Rowley; Paul V. Brown; Brenda Short, Guard, NECC; Larry Barnes, Guard, NECC; Michael Dempsey, Asst. Superintendent, NECC; Deb Creason, Director of Nursing, NECC; E. Wallace, Health Care Administrator, NECC; S. Hallazgo, Doctor and Medical Director, NECC; Correctional Medical Services; Ansel Card, Superintendent, TCC; Arnold Mantle, Grievance Officer, ACC; Vivian Watts, Guard, TCC; Benny Bertgen, Guard, TCC; Linda Alexander; Michael Groose, Assistant Director of Prisons, Appellees.
Judges: Before BOWMAN, BEAM, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 6
Pages: 565–566

Head Matter:
Wasim AZIZ, Appellant, v. Dora SCHRIRO; Larry Rowley; Paul V. Brown; Brenda Short, Guard, NECC; Larry Barnes, Guard, NECC; Michael Dempsey, Asst. Superintendent, NECC; Deb Creason, Director of Nursing, NECC; E. Wallace, Health Care Administrator, NECC; S. Hallazgo, Doctor and Medical Director, NECC; Correctional Medical Services; Ansel Card, Superintendent, TCC; Arnold Mantle, Grievance Officer, ACC; Vivian Watts, Guard, TCC; Benny Bertgen, Guard, TCC; Linda Alexander; Michael Groose, Assistant Director of Prisons, Appellees.
No. 01-1658.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted May 31, 2001.
Decided June 5, 2001.
Before BOWMAN, BEAM, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Former Missouri inmate Wasim Aziz brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action claiming that prison personnel retaliated against him for filing grievances — thereby chilling his right of free speech and violating due process, the Eighth Amendment, and state law — when they disciplined him for language he had used in the grievances. - He also claimed that he was denied adequate medical care. The district court dis missed his complaint, without prejudice, under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B). Aziz appeals.
After de novo review, see Moore v. Sims, 200 F.3d 1170, 1171 (8th Cir.2000) (per curiam), we agree with the district court that Aziz failed to state a section 1983 claim based on disciplinary action, see Cowans v. Warren, 150 F.3d 910, 912 (8th Cir.1998) (per curiam) (where inmate breaks prison rule by using abusive and insulting language that is unnecessary to advance his grievance, discipline for use of offensive language does not raise claim of retaliation or other constitutional violation). We also agree that Aziz failed to state a section 1983 claim regarding his medical care, because he did not sufficiently allege defendants were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical need. See Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 106, 97 S.Ct. 285, 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976); Dulany v. Carnahan, 132 F.3d 1234, 1239 (8th Cir.1997); Bellecourt v. United States, 994 F.2d 427, 431 (8th Cir.1993), cert. denied, 510 U.S. 1109, 114 S.Ct. 1049, 127 L.Ed.2d 371 (1994). Finally, we hold that the district court did not err in declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over any pendent state law claim. See 28 U.S.C. § 1367(c)(3).
Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
. The Honorable Donald J. Stohr, District Judge, United States District Court for the Eastem District of Missouri.