Williams v. York

The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendants' request to reconsider its previous denial of their motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. In this case, an inmate at the ADC filed suit against defendants, alleging deliberate indifference to his painful dental condition. Because defendants did not timely appeal the district court's denial of summary judgment, the court only had jurisdiction to review the district court's order denying reconsideration under Rule 60(b). The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the reconsideration under Rule 60(b) where, unlike the defendants in Cullor v. Baldwin, 830 F.3d 830 (8th Cir. 2016), the defendants here have not shown that they tried to get plaintiff treatment after they were alerted to his condition. The court held that defendants were constitutionally obligated to see that the inmates in their custody who need dental care receive it and were deliberately indifferent to plaintiff's serious dental condition. View "Williams v. York" on Justia Law