Frederick Hoptowit v. John Spellman

How courts have described this case

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• agreeing “with the district court’s conclusion that the condition of “lack of adequate ventilation and air flor undermines the |j health of inmates and the sanitation of the penitentiary,” which “violates the minimum requirements of the Eighth Amendment”
• “Adequate lighting is one of the fundamental attributes of ‘adequate shelter’ required by the Eighth Amendment.”
• inadequate lighting, plumbing, vermin infestation, fire safety, ventilation and air flow, safety hazards in prison violated minimum requirements of Eighth Amendment
• plaintiff’s allegations that cell permeated with air saturated with fumes of feces, urine and vomit sufficient to defeat summary judgment
• “Not 3 || every deviation from ideally safe conditions amounts to a constitutional violation.”
• upholding prisoner’s claims of unsanitary and inhumane conditions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).