Gregory May v. Michael F. Sheahan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the \use of bodily restraints in a manner that serves to punish a pre-trial detainee.\
• concluding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the use of bodily restraints in a manner that serves to punish a pretrial detainee
• explaining that “shackling all hospital detainees reduces the risk of a breach of security” but finding the application of such a policy “plainly excessive” on the facts of that case
• finding that policy of continuously shackling an AIDS patient to a bed while under the constant watch of a guard was “plainly excessive in the absence of any indication that the detainee pose[d] some sort of security risk”
• finding that policy of continuous shackling of an AIDS patient to a bed while under the constant watch of a guard was “plainly excessive in the absence of any indication that the detainee pose[d] some sort of security risk”
• affirming denial of motion to dismiss where court could not determine reason for disparate treatment of pre-trial detainees without a record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).