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223617P.pdf  04/23/2024  DeAngelo Thomas-El  v.  Nicole Francis
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:   22-3617
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Loken and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Prisoner civil rights. The district court did not err in 
   denying defendants qualified immunity on plaintiff's Eighth Amendment 
   claim arising out of the deprivation of toothpaste for nearly five months 
   while he was in custody; a genuine factual dispute existed over whether 
   defendants subjectively knew and consciously disregarded the risk of 
   serious harm plaintiff faced and the law clearly established an inmate's 
   right to hygiene supplies during the timeframe alleged in the complaint. 
  

232710U.pdf  04/23/2024  John Puetz  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:   23-2710
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Benton, Erickson, and Kobes, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Civil case - Federal Tort Claims Act. Plaintiff failed to comply with the 
   presentment requirement for filing a Federal Tort Claims Act suit in 
   federal court, and the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's complaint 
   for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed. 
  

232732U.pdf  04/23/2024  United States  v.  Franklyn Denoyer
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:   23-2732
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Central   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Benton, Arnold, and Stras, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court did not abuse its 
   discretion in sentencing defendant to three years in prison, which was 
   above the three-to-nine-month sentence that the parties and Guidelines 
   recommended, after revoking his supervised release for a fourth time; nor 
   did the district court place excessive weight on defendant's purported 
   disrespect toward the court.