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051173P.pdf   02/03/2006  Dennis F. Smith  v.  Tenet HealthSystem
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-1173
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Murphy and Bowman, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - medical malpractice. Challenge to limits on voir dire
   rejected; admission of certain medical, psychiatric and Social Security
   records was proper; jury instructions were an accurate statement of
   Missouri law; no abuse of discretion in refusing to permit the filing of a
   third amended complaint; district court did not err in granting defendants
   judgment as a matter of law on claims hospital defendants caused
   plaintiff's amputation by failing to comply with infection-control
   policies, as there was no evidence that such a failure caused the
   amputation; district court did not err in taxing costs in favor of defendant,
   but the case is remanded for the limited purpose of reducing the costs
   taxed for postage and delivery fees for depositions.