Elijah Wells v. Creighton Preparatory School

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that district court had authority to place maximum limit of thirty days on confinement in isolation . cells
• ruling that the Eleventh Amendment did not bar recovery of attorney's fees from state officers acting in their official capacities
• recognizing that “the length of confinement cannot be ignored in deciding whether the confinement meets constitutional standards”
• recognizing that a “filthy, overcrowded cell and a diet of ‘grue’ might be tolerable for a few days and intolerably cruel for weeks or months”
• holding that prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment by, among other things, regularly jumbling the inmates’ mattresses even though some inmates suffered from infectious diseases
• recognizing that “the length of confinement cannot be ignored in deciding whether the confinement meets constitutional standards”

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