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Fifth Circuit· 6/28/2004

Gates v. Cook

Citations

  • 376 F.3d 323
  • 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 13890
  • 2004 WL 1440601

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that a federal court could require a prison to adopt a policy providing fans, ice water, and daily showers to inmates under certain conditions
  • holding that under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, the exhaustion of administrative remedies requirement is satisfied for the class if the class representative exhausts his remedies
  • holding that a failure to address a problem known to be “urgent for more than a decade” supports the finding of deliberate indifference
  • holding that the conditions of con- finement on Mississippi State Penitentiary’s death row violate the Eighth Amendment
  • holding that a failure to address a problem known to be “urgent for more than a decade” supports the finding of deliberate indifference
  • concluding that one plaintiff’s satisfaction of the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ Administrative Remedy Program was “enough to satisfy the requirement for the class”

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