Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-06-26 16:00:43.13247+00
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United States Court of Appeals
                             For the Eighth Circuit
                         ___________________________

                                 No. 23-1331
                         ___________________________

                                 James M. Raper, Jr.

                        lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellant

                                           v.

Mark Gober; Drew County Detention Center; Does, All Guards and Employees of
 Drew County Detention Center; Susan Potts, Ambassador Drew County Jail;
                    Robert Akin, Drew County Judge

                       lllllllllllllllllllllDefendants - Appellees
                                       ____________

                     Appeal from United States District Court
                   for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Central
                                  ____________

                             Submitted: June 16, 2023
                               Filed: June 26, 2023
                                  [Unpublished]
                                  ____________

Before GRUENDER, SHEPHERD, and STRAS, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

      James Raper, Jr., appeals the grant of summary judgment to jail officials who
allegedly delayed medical treatment for a spider bite and turned off the water to the
toilet in his cell. Having carefully reviewed the record 1 and the parties’ arguments
on appeal, we conclude that no material facts are in dispute and the officials are
entitled to judgment as a matter of law. See Johnson v. Leonard, 929 F.3d 569, 574–
75 (8th Cir. 2019) (reviewing a grant of summary judgment de novo and explaining
that a deliberate-indifference claim requires showing that the “defendants knew of”
an objectively serious medical need “yet deliberately disregarded it” (citation
omitted)); Smith v. Copeland, 87 F.3d 265, 268–69 (8th Cir. 1996) (holding that four
days in a cell with raw sewage from an overflowed toilet was not “cruel and unusual
punishment”). We accordingly affirm the judgment of the district court.2 See 8th
Cir. R. 47B.
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      1
       We deny the pending motion to present evidence. See Fed. R. App.
P. 10(a)(1) (making district-court exhibits part of the record on appeal).
      2
       The Honorable James M. Moody, Jr., United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Arkansas, adopting the report and recommendations of the
Honorable Edie R. Ervin, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of
Arkansas.

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