United States Court of Appeals
                          FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
                                  ___________

                                  No. 08-2318
                                  ___________

Larry Darnell Keeper,                      *
                                           *
            Appellant,                     *
                                           *
      v.                                   *
                                           *
Carol E. Jackson, Chief Judge of the       *
United States District Court for the       *
Eastern District of Missouri; Thomas       *
J. Mehan, Assistant United States          *
Attorney for the Eastern District of       *
Missouri; James E. Martin, Assistant       *   Appeal from the United States
United States Attorney for the Eastern     *   District Court for the
District of Missouri; Michael E. Gans,     *   Eastern District of Missouri.
Clerk of Court of the United States        *
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit;   *   [UNPUBLISHED]
Judge Shepherd, Judge of the United        *
States Court of Appeals for the Eighth     *
Circuit; Judge Smith, Judge of the         *
United States Court of Appeals for the     *
Eighth Circuit; Judge Bye, Judge of the    *
United States Court of Appeals for the     *
Eighth Circuit; Judge Colloton, Judge      *
of the United States Court of Appeals      *
for the Eighth Circuit; Judge Arnold,      *
Judge of the United States Court of        *
Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; Judge      *
Fagg, Judge of the United States Court     *
of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; Judge   *
Melloy, Judge of the United States         *
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit;   *
Eric H. Holder, Jr.,1 Attorney General  *
of the United States,                   *
                                        *
             Appellees.                 *
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                             Submitted: July 7, 2009
                                Filed: July 10, 2009
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Before MURPHY, RILEY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

       Larry Keeper (Keeper) appeals the district court’s2 28 U.S.C. § 1915A
preservice dismissal of his complaint, in which he contended the named defendants
participated in a conspiracy to discriminate against Keeper, to violate his equal
protection rights, and to deny him access to the courts in connection with legal
proceedings surrounding his career-offender sentence for a federal drug conviction.

      Having conducted careful de novo review, see Cooper v. Schriro, 

,
783 (8th Cir. 1999) (per curiam) (standard of review), we conclude that dismissal was
proper. Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
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      1
      Eric H. Holder, Jr. has been appointed to serve as Attorney General of the
United States, and is substituted as appellee pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate
Procedure 43(c).
      2
      The Honorable Paul A. Magnuson, United States District Judge for the District
of Minnesota, sitting by designation in the Eastern District of Missouri.

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