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· 5/13/1999

KEY v. McKINNEY

Citations

  • 176 F.3d 1083
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 9058

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that a prisoner restrained in handcuffs and shackles for twenty-four hours, who urinated on himself as a result, failed to establish a constitutional violation
  • allegations that being in restraints for a twenty-four-hour period, which made it more difficult to sleep, did not show a serious deprivation of the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities
  • twenty-four hours in restrains “did not work a major disruption in Key’s prison life”
  • allegations that being in restraints which made it “more difficult to sleep and relieve himself,” when lasting only for 24 hours did not show a “serious deprivation of ‘the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities”

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