Michael Keating, Jr. v. Gene Smith

Inmate Michael Keating appeals the district court’s 1 grant of a motion to dismiss, and the court’s later adverse grant of summary judgment, in his action raising claims that he suffered deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs, and suffered medical malpractice under Missouri law, when Nurse Diana Cockrell and Dr. Gene Smith treated him for a broken finger while he was detained in a county jail. 2 We deny Dr. Smith’s motion to dismiss the appeal against him for lack of an appeal-able order, and we affirm the judgment of the district court.

Specifically, we agree with the court that…