Harper v. Showers

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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).