James Raper, Jr. v. Mark Gober
Opinion
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Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Central ____________ Submitted: June 16, 2023 Filed: June 26, 2023 [Unpublished] ____________ Before GRUENDER, SHEPHERD, and STRAS, Circuit Judges. ____________ 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– (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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