                 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                      FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

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                           No. 96-20431
                         Summary Calendar
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                       ASEMENDES WILLIAMS,

                                              Plaintiff-Appellant,

                              versus

                          DON NICHOLS,

                                              Defendant-Appellee.

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           Appeal from the United States District Court
                for the Southern District of Texas
                           (94-CV-2050)
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                        September 20, 1996
Before SMITH, DUHÉ, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

     In this civil rights action, Asemendes Williams, Texas state

prisoner # 659605, challenges the summary judgment granted to Don

Nichols.   Williams contends that Nichols negligently failed to

screen inmates in the Harris County Jail (for which Nichols was

Medical Administrator) properly for tuberculosis, resulting in

Williams’ contracting it. (Because the Sheriff was not served with

process, he is not a party.    And, Williams’ claim that he was


     *
          Pursuant to Local Rule 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that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent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 Local Rule
47.5.4.
entitled   to   attend   a   pretrial   conference   is   without   merit.)

Pursuant to our de novo review of the record, the judgment is

AFFIRMED for essentially the reasons stated by the district court.

See Williams v. Nichols, No. 94-2050 (S.D. Tex. Apr. 16, 1996)

(unpublished).

                                                               AFFIRMED




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