Danley v. Allen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prolonged exposure to pepper spray due to a failure to properly decontaminate an inmate may form the basis of an Eighth Amendment claim
• concluding that the defendants’ failure to allow the plaintiff to shower for “the amount of time required by jail policy” was circumstantial evidence of malicious intent
• holding that prolonged exposure to pepper spray due to a failure to properly decontaminate an inmate may form the basis of an Eighth Amendment violation
• holding that use of some force justified when an inmate twice refused an order to return to his cell
• holding that “the effects of prolonged exposure to pepper spray with inadequate decontamination and poor ventilation” can amount to a serious medical need
• recognizing that “only temporary discomfort” from pepper spray is usually not a serious medical need

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).