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· 2/12/1992

Frank James v. Milwaukee County and Franklin Lotter

Citations

  • 956 F.2d 696
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 1708
  • 1992 WL 23128

How courts have described this case

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

  • “a prisoner who is denied . . . a television set has not set out a deprivation of [his rights under]... the eighth amendment”
  • “a prisoner who is denied a pack of playing cards or a television set has not set out a deprivation of constitutional dimensions under the Eighth Amendment.”
  • denial of television does not constitute a cognizable civil rights claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wood, Flaum, Eschbach

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