· 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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