Commissioner v. Roeser & Pendleton, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a court must assess the hardships asserted by a SHU inmate “in comparison to the hardships endured by prisoners in general population”
• noting that almost 10% of all inmates received SHU punishment, and 40% of those were confined for less than 90 days
• stating that a court must assess the 7 hardships asserted by a SHU inmate “in comparison to the 8 hardships endured by prisoners in general population”
• noting that “far inferior” hygienic conditions in SHU that included “inadequate amounts of toilet paper, soap and cleaning materials, a filthy mattress, and infrequent changes of clothes” may permit the finding of atypical and significant deprivation
• reversing the district court in part for failure to consider typical duration of non-disciplinary confinement and noting that the frequency with which inmates are confined as a result of the ordinary administration of the prison is also relevant
• “[T]he duration and the frequency of such deprivations are highly relevant to whether the conditions of a plaintiffs confinement should be considered atypical.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).