181833P.pdf   07/03/2019  Marvin Orlando Johnson  v.  Dr. Todd A. Leonard
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-1833
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Gruender and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In action by a pre-trial detainee alleging the 
   jail's dental providers violated his Eighth Amendment rights through 
   deliberate indifference to his his serious medical needs, the district 
   court did not abuse its discretion in setting aside a default judgment 
   against defendant Collier as Collier had a meritorious defense and the 
   prejudice to plaintiff from the untimely filing of an answer was not 
   significant; plaintiff's intent to appeal the summary judgment order in 
   the case - based on his appeal of the subsequent judgment - was sufficient 
   to preserve the order for appeal; the record showed defendants regularly 
   responded to plaintiff's sick-calls, followed their company's protocol and 
   prescribed pain medication and other appropriate treatment, and the 
   district court did not err in granting them summary judgment on 
   plaintiff's Eighth Amendment medical needs claims; delays in permanently 
   filling plaintiff's cavities did not show the kind of unnecessary and 
   wanton infliction of pain that is sufficiently harmful to establish 
   deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.