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Case: 22-60464    Document: 00516700957       Page: 1    Date Filed: 04/04/2023

          United States Court of Appeals
               for the Fifth Circuit
                                                                 United States Court of Appeals
                                                                          Fifth Circuit

                               No. 22-60464
                                                                        FILED
                                                                     April 4, 2023
                             Summary Calendar
                                                                   Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                        Clerk
   Jamey Paul Burrage,

                                                        Plaintiff—Appellant,

                                    versus

   Lee County Adult Jail, Medical Department; Jamie
   Burrell, NP at Lee County Jail,

                                                     Defendants—Appellees,

   ____________________

   Jamey Paul Burrage,

                                                        Plaintiff—Appellant,

                                    versus

   Lee County Adult Jail, All; Ronnie Partlow, Captain;
   Jim H. Johnson, Sheriff,

                                                     Defendants—Appellees.

                 Appeal from the United States District Court
                   for the Northern District of Mississippi
                  USDC No. 1:20-CV-222 c/w 1:21-CV-103
Case: 22-60464      Document: 00516700957           Page: 2     Date Filed: 04/04/2023

                                     No. 22-60464

   Before Jones, Haynes, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam:*
          In this pro se suit, Jamey Paul Burrage alleges that his jailers have failed
   to protect him from inmate-on-inmate violence and deprived him of medical
   care. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants.
   Burrage appealed to this court.
          Burrage has been involved in several physical altercations with other
   inmates, but in each instance the jailers have stepped in, broken up the fight,
   and separated him from the other inmates. He fails to show how these facts
   are consonant with the conclusion that “prison officials were deliberately
   indifferent to his need for protection.” Newton v. Black, 133 F.3d 301, 308
   (5th Cir. 1998). Likewise, although he complains that he was denied adequate
   medical care, the record shows that the medical staff have treated him for a
   variety of ailments during his incarceration. Burrage alleges that they have
   not adequately treated a brief, intermittent numbness that he experiences
   when he moves his neck in a certain way. But the medical staff could not
   reproduce the problem during a range of motion examination, and he has not
   shown any harm that has arisen due to lack of further treatment. Thus, the
   medical staff has not “clearly evince[d] a wanton disregard for any serious
   medical needs.” Domino v. Texas Dep't of Crim. Just., 239 F.3d 752, 756 (5th
   Cir. 2001).
          We find no reversible error of law or fact and affirm essentially for the
   reasons stated in the memorandum opinion of the district court. The district
   court’s judgment is AFFIRMED.

          *
            Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 47.5, the court has determined that this
   opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited
   circumstances set forth in 5th Circuit Rule 47.5.4.

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