Case Name: Russell J. BERGER, Appellant, v. CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES, (agent for service is David Morgan), Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; John Doe, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; Everett, Nurse, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; Vera Reynolds, Clerk of Lincoln County Circuit Court, Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2001-08-28
Citations: 17 F. App'x 503
Docket Number: No. 01-1125
Parties: Russell J. BERGER, Appellant, v. CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES, (agent for service is David Morgan), Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; John Doe, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; Everett, Nurse, Cum-mins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; Vera Reynolds, Clerk of Lincoln County Circuit Court, Appel-lees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 17
Pages: 503–504

Head Matter:
Russell J. BERGER, Appellant, v. CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES, (agent for service is David Morgan), Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; John Doe, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; Everett, Nurse, Cum-mins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; Vera Reynolds, Clerk of Lincoln County Circuit Court, Appel-lees.
No. 01-1125.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 28, 2001.
Decided Aug. 28, 2001.
Before HANSEN, FAGG, and BEAM, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Prisoner Russell Berger appeals the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in which he had claimed medical negligence and denial of access to the courts. Upon a thorough review' of the record and the parties' briefs, we agree with the district court that dismissal of the access-to-courts claim was proper based on absolute quasi-judicial immunity, see Martin v. Hendren, 127 F.3d 720, 721 (8th Cir.1997), and failure to state a constitutional violation. The district court also properly refused to exercise its supplemental jurisdiction over the pendent negligence claim, which it dismissed without prejudice. See 28 U.S.C. § 1367(c)(3). So that Berger may pursue whatever state law claims he might have against Vera Reynolds — against whom he asserted the denial-of-access claim for allegedly refusing to file certain papers — we modify Reynolds's dismissal to be without prejudice also.
Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district court as modified. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
. The Honorable William R. Wilson, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas.