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· 2/4/1981

ATIYEH, GOVERNOR OF OREGON, Et Al. v. CAPPS Et Al.

Citations

  • 449 U.S. 1312
  • 49 U.S.L.W. 3558
  • 101 S. Ct. 829
  • 66 L. Ed. 2d 785
  • 1981 U.S. LEXIS 697

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • observing as to prisoners’ intolerable conditions claims that “nobody promised them a rose garden; and I know of nothing in the Eighth Amendment which requires that they be housed in a manner most pleasing to them”
  • “[T]here is nothing in the Constitution that says that ‘rehabilitation’ is the sole permissible goal of incarceration. ...”
  • stating transfer within prison is within discretion of prison officials

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Judges: Rehnquist

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