Case Name: Don/McC Cook/SOLO Plaintiff-Appellant v. Jeffrey STIEVE, Medical Director, Corrrect Care Solutions; Arkansas State Prison; Aric Simmons, APN, Practitioner, Correct Care Solution; Brett Butler, Medical Doctor, Correct Care Solution, a Tennessee Corporation Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-11-14
Citations: 701 F. App'x 533
Docket Number: No. 16-3802
Parties: Don/McC Cook/SOLO Plaintiff-Appellant v. Jeffrey STIEVE, Medical Director, Corrrect Care Solutions; Arkansas State Prison; Aric Simmons, APN, Practitioner, Correct Care Solution; Brett Butler, Medical Doctor, Correct Care Solution, a Tennessee Corporation Defendants-Appellees
Judges: Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 701
Pages: 533–534

Head Matter:
Don/McC Cook/SOLO Plaintiff-Appellant v. Jeffrey STIEVE, Medical Director, Corrrect Care Solutions; Arkansas State Prison; Aric Simmons, APN, Practitioner, Correct Care Solution; Brett Butler, Medical Doctor, Correct Care Solution, a Tennessee Corporation Defendants-Appellees
No. 16-3802
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: November 8, 2017
Filed: November 14, 2017
Don/McC Cook/Solo, Pro Se
Brent J. Eubanks, Humphries & Odum, Little Rock, AR, for Defendant-Appellee
Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Arkansas prisoner Don/McC Cook/Solo (Solo) appeals the district court's adverse grant of summary judgment in favor of Dr. Jeffrey Stieve in this pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Upon careful de novo review, see United States v. Dico, Inc., 808 F.3d 342, 346 (8th Cir. 2015), we conclude that Solo demonstrated neither deliberate indifference nor unconstitutional retaliation by Dr. Stieve. See Meuir v. Greene Cty. Jail Emps., 487 F.3d 1115, 1118 (8th Cir. 2007) (prison physicians are free to exercise independent medical judgment); Long v. Nix, 86 F.3d 761, 765 (8th Cir. 1996) (prison officials do not violate Eighth Amendment when, in exercising professional judgment, they refuse to implement inmate's requested course of treatment). Accordingly, we affirm the judgment. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
. 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).