United States v. Christopher Lee

1The Honorable Charles A. Shaw, United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Missouri.
United States Court of Appeals
FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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No. 06-3095
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William Bradford, *
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Appellant, *
* Appeal from the United States
v. * District Court for the
* Eastern District of Missouri.
Michelle Whitworth, *
* [UNPUBLISHED]
Appellee. *
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Submitted: September 7, 2007
Filed: September 17, 2007
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Before MURPHY, SMITH, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.
William Bradford, a detainee at the Missouri Sexual Offender Treatment
Center, appeals the district court’s 1 adverse grant of summary judgment in his 42
U.S.C. § 1983 suit against Michelle Whitworth, a registered nurse. Having carefully
reviewed the record, see Senty-Haugen v. Goodno, 462 F.3d 876, 885 (8th Cir. 2006),
cert. denied, 127 S. Ct. 2048 (2007) (standard of review), we agree with the district
court that Nurse Whitworth’s decision to place restrictions on Bradford for refusing
to obey certain rules was a professional decision entitled to deference, see Youngberg

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v. Romeo, 457 U.S. 307, 323-25 (1982); and that Bradford was provided adequate
procedural protections, see Senty-Haugen, 462 F.3d at 887-88 (due process
requirements are flexible and specific to each situation; most important mechanisms
for ensuring due process are notice of factual basis leading to deprivation and fair
opportunity for rebuttal).
Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
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