IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 97-10711
Summary Calendar
DARRELL RUSSELL,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
versus
GARY L. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL
JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION; R. D. MCLEOD; WILLIAM
SWART; LIEUTENANT WICKERSHAM; CAPTAIN E. HAMPTON,
Defendants-Appellees.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Texas
USDC No. 2:97-CV-90
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December 23, 1997
Before JOLLY, JONES, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Darrell Russell, Texas prisoner # 674336, appeals the
district court’s dismissal of his civil rights complaint as
frivolous and for failure to state a claim under 28 U.S.C.
§ 1915A(b). Russell argues that he suffered from a bad back and
that a prison doctor acted with deliberate indifference to that
condition in changing Russell’s work restrictions so that he was
eligible for assignment to field work. He argues that the other
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Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this
opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited
circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.
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defendants exhibited deliberate indifference to his serious
medical needs by assigning him to work in accordance with the
doctor’s restrictions.
We have throughly reviewed the record and Russell’s
arguments and AFFIRM the dismissal of Russell’s complaint
essentially for the reasons stated by the district court in
Russell v. Johnson, No. 2:97-CV-0090 (N.D. Tex. May 30, 1997).
AFFIRMED.