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TOOMBS v. BELL

No. 85-2333.

798 F.2d 297 (1986)

Bobby TOOMBS, Appellant, v. Dr. Carl BELL; Norvell Dixon, Nurse, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Corrections, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 11, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa A. Kelly, Pine Bluff, Ark., for appellant.

No argument was made by appellees. Argument was waived.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON and MAGILL, Circuit Judges, and REGAN, Senior District Judge.

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Bobby Toombs, an inmate of the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections ("Department") appeals the district court's dismissal, for lack of jurisdiction, of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against Dr. Carl Bell and Nurse Norvell Dixon, employees of the Department. For the reasons below, we reverse and remand to the district court with instructions to let Toombs amend his pleadings and develop his claim.

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