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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 18-6021 DANIEL KERSTETTER, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCE INC.; DR. PAUL MATERA, Defendants - Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Deborah K. Chasanow, Senior District Judge. (1:17-cv-00604-DKC) Submitted: August 8, 2018 Decided: August 23, 2018 Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, DIAZ, Circuit Judge, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublish
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 18-6021 DANIEL KERSTETTER, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCE INC.; DR. PAUL MATERA, Defendants - Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Deborah K. Chasanow, Senior District Judge. (1:17-cv-00604-DKC) Submitted: August 8, 2018 Decided: August 23, 2018 Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, DIAZ, Circuit Judge, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublishe..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 18-6021
DANIEL KERSTETTER,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCE INC.; DR. PAUL MATERA,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore.
Deborah K. Chasanow, Senior District Judge. (1:17-cv-00604-DKC)
Submitted: August 8, 2018 Decided: August 23, 2018
Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, DIAZ, Circuit Judge, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit
Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Daniel Kerstetter, Appellant Pro Se. Douglas Conrad Meister, Gina Marie Smith,
MEYERS, RODBELL & ROSENBAUM, PA, Riverdale Park, Maryland, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Daniel Kerstetter appeals the district court’s order granting summary judgment to
Dr. Paul Matera on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2012) complaint. 1 We have reviewed the
record and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we grant leave to proceed in forma
pauperis and affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. 2 Kerstetter v. Wexford
Health Source Inc., No. 1:17-cv-00604-DKC (D. Md. Dec. 4, 2017). We deny
Kerstetter’s motions to appoint counsel and to supplement the record with photographic
evidence. We also deny as moot Kerstetter’s motion for emergency intervention. We
dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately
presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional
process.
AFFIRMED
1
The district court entered a separate order dismissing Kerstetter’s claim against
Wexford Health Source Inc., and Kerstetter does not challenge in his informal appellate
brief the district court’s dismissal of Wexford. See 4th Cir. R. 34(b); Jackson v. Lightsey,
775 F.3d 170, 177 (4th Cir. 2014).
2
To the extent Kerstetter argues on appeal that Dr. Matera violated his Eighth
Amendment rights by denying him a follow-up appointment with Dr. Daniel Daniels,
failing to adequately care for his wound after a May 2017 surgery, and releasing him to
general population after that surgery, we conclude that Kerstetter waived appellate review
of these claims by failing to raise them in the district court. See Pornomo v. United
States,
814 F.3d 681, 686 (4th Cir. 2016).
2