United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants on claims they were deliberately indifferent to diabetic inmate plaintiff's medical needs is affirmed where plaintiff did not submit sufficient evidence to establish his constitutional claims, and district court did not abuse its discretion in not exercising supplemental jurisdiction over plaintiff's state law claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/10/2006
• Published 01/10/2006

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, BOWMAN, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick J. Glover, argued, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Clint Sargent, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark F. Marshall, argued, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for appellees Hollingsworth, Healthcare Medical, Rost, Shaeffer, Regier, and Paa., James Ellis Moore, argued, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Jeffrey L. Bratkiewicz, on the brief), for appellees DeGreef, Bloomberg, Slykhuis, and Weber.