Bassan v. Fed. Land Bank Ass'n of Haw.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that an inmate faced a substantial risk of serious harm because he was forced to walk handcuffed down wet stairs that were strewn with trash, which made it more hazardous than just a wet floor
• “Forcing someone to walk handcuffed and unaided down stairs needlessly strewn with easily removable milk, food, and garbage . . . poses an unreasonable peril.”
• “Forcing someone to walk handcuffed and unaided down stairs needlessly strewn with easily removable milk, food, and garbage, as Anderson alleges, poses an unreasonable peril.”
• “Forcing someone to walk handcuffed and unaided down stairs needlessly strewn with easily removable milk, food, and garbage, as Anderson alleges, poses an unreasonable peril.”
• requiring prisoner to descend slippery and garbage-strewn stairs while handcuffed and without assistance was a hazard
• distinguishing Pyles on the ground that the stairs there “were unavoidably wet” because “the water on inmates’ shower shoes inevitably tracked onto the exit stairway”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).