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141589P.pdf 04/28/2015 Terry Turner v. Sidney Mull
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-1589
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil Case - prisoner civil rights. Turner, who suffers form a
neurological disorder but able to ambulate, stand and sit with use of leg
braces and crutches, claimed prison officials were deliberately
indifferent to his serious medical needs by transporting him in a
non-wheelchair-accessible van, threatening him, and retaliating against
him for complaining. District court?s grant of summary judgment to
defendants is affirmed, as Turner was not entitled to a
wheelchair-accessible van absent a doctor?s order and use of a
wheelchair. The official capacity and individual capacity claims failed
because he failed to show he had an objectively serious medical need
requiring use of a wheelchair-accessible van; the conditions claim did not
rise to a constitutional violation; the threat claim did not result in
injury; and the retaliation claim failed for lack of evidence of a causal
link between his complaint and any adverse action. The district court did
not err in holding qualified immunity barred the claims against
defendants.