Fifth Circuit· 5/24/1999

Harper v. Showers

Citations

174 F.3d 716
1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 9984
1999 WL 284958

How courts have described this case

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recognizing that “[t]he Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons ... but neither does it permit inhumane ones”
holding that prisoner had no protected property or liberty interest in custodial classifications
explaining that sleep constitutes one of life’s basic necessities and, therefore, “conditions designed to prevent sleep, then, might violate the Eighth Amendment.”
finding that “[c]onditions designed to prevent sleep . . . might violate the Eighth Amendment” when an inmate alleged sleep deprivation because of noise caused by other inmates
reversing district court’s dismissal for failure to state a claim as prisoner's claim was not indisputably meritless
applying § 1997e(e) to bar psychological damages absent allegation of more than de minimis injury

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Judges: Smith, Demoss, Stewart

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