Court Opinion

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Case: 15-50296      Document: 00514044634         Page: 1    Date Filed: 06/22/2017

           IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

                                    No. 15-50296
                                                                       United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                Fifth Circuit

                                  Summary Calendar                            FILED
                                                                          June 22, 2017
                                                                         Lyle W. Cayce
JERRY WANZER,                                                                 Clerk

                                                 Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

DEBRA GLOOR, Connally Medical Supervisor/As an Individual and in Official
Capacity; GHASSAN GHORAYEB, MD; JOHN DOE #2, Texas Department of
Criminal Justice Health Service Division; CALVIN DAVIS, Assistant Warden;
BRENDA TORRES; CYNTHIA TUNG, MD,

                                                 Defendants-Appellees

                  Appeals from the United States District Court
                        for the Western District of Texas
                             USDC No. 5:13-CV-693

Before KING, DENNIS, and GRAVES, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM: *
       Jerry Wanzer, Texas prisoner # 855976, filed the instant 42 U.S.C.
§ 1983 suit to raise claims concerning deliberate indifference to serious medical
needs and infringement of his right of access to the courts. The magistrate
judge, presiding with the consent of the parties, granted the defendants’

       * Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH
CIR. R. 47.5.4.
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motion for summary judgment, and this appeal ensued. Wanzer’s motion to
file a second reply brief is GRANTED.
       We review the grant of a motion for summary judgment de novo. Xtreme
Lashes, LLC v. Xtended Beauty, Inc., 576 F.3d 221, 226 (5th Cir. 2009).
Summary judgment “shall” be entered “if the movant shows that there is no
genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment
as a matter of law.” FED. R. CIV. P. 56(a).
       Wanzer challenges the district court’s grant of summary judgment on his
claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs. The record evidence
does not show a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether “prison
officials refused to treat him, ignored his complaints, intentionally treated him
incorrectly, or engaged in any similar conduct that would clearly evince a
wanton disregard for any serious medical needs.” Gobert v. Caldwell, 463 F.3d
339, 346 (5th Cir. 2006) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Each
of the defendants either was not personally involved in his medical care or
provided him with sufficient assistance and treatment.                   The record thus
supports this portion of the magistrate judge’s judgment. 1
       The record also supports the magistrate judge’s grant of the defendants’
motion for summary judgment as to Wanzer’s claims of infringement of his
right of access to the courts, as he has not presented evidence that the seizure
of his materials resulted in an actual injury. See Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343,
351 (1996); see also Ruiz v. United States, 160 F.3d 273, 275 (5th Cir. 1998).
Because Wanzer has not shown that the defendants infringed his
constitutional rights, he concomitantly has not shown that the district court
erred by concluding that the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity.

       1 In his brief on appeal, Wanzer claims that defendants Davis and Torres confiscated
his eyeglasses and eye drops. We do not consider this claim, as Wanzer did not raise it below.
See Jackson v. United States v. Postal Serv., 666 F.2d 258, 260–61 (5th Cir. 1982).

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See Harris v. Victoria Indep. Sch. Dist., 168 F.3d 216, 223 (5th Cir. 1999).
Finally, because the right to effective assistance of counsel does not apply to
civil proceedings, we need not review Wanzer’s claims of ineffective assistance
of counsel in this civil rights case. See Sanchez v. United States Postal Serv.,
785 F.2d 1236, 1237 (5th Cir. 1986).
      AFFIRMED.

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