Charles M. Keenan v. Frank Hall, Director Oregon Department of Corrections

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• holding that the 10 Eighth Amendment requires inmates to be housed in an environment that is reasonably free from 11 excess noise
• holding that the Eighth Amendment requires inmates to be housed in an environment that 27 is reasonably free from excess noise
• holding “the Eighth 9 Amendment require[s] that [inmates] be housed in an environment . . . reasonably free of 10 excess noise”
• stating that “verbal harassment generally does not violate the Eighth Amendment” and 19 “[s]ummary judgment dismissing [Plaintiff’s] verbal harassment claim was proper”
• holding that mail from a court is not legal mail
• holding that dismissal of verbal 20 harassment claim was proper where plaintiff had not shown that the prison guards’ “disrespectful 21 and assaultive comments” were “unusually gross even for a prison setting and were calculated to 22 and did cause him psychological damage”

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