DeSpain v. Uphoff

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the ultimate constitutional inquiry is directed at whether an unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain has occurred”
• concluding that exposure to human waste for 36 hours would constitute a deprivation serious enough to violate the Eighth Amendment
• holding that both the length of exposure and the severity of the deprivation are important factors in evaluating the seriousness of the deprivation
• holding that exposure to non-working toilets and other inmates’ urine and feces via standing water for thirty-six hours was sufficiently serious
• holding that exposure to non-working toilets and other inmates’ urine and feces via standing water for thirty-six hours was sufficiently serious
• concluding that exposure to human waste, even for 36 hours, would constitute sufficiently serious deprivation to violate Eighth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).