Mark Labounty v. Stephen G. Adler, E. Carrillo, Walter A. Burdge, J. Grigioni, and All Program Committee Members

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an inmate’s exclusion from the prison’s maintenance electrician program did not establish an Eighth Amendment violation
• “[E]xclusion from the prison's maintenance electrician program[ ] does not even constitute ‘punishment,’ let alone punishment that is ‘cruel and unusual.’ ”
• “Rule 12(b)(6) does not give the district court authority to consider matters outside the pleadings; it simply delineates the procedures which must be followed in testing the legal sufficiency of a complaint.”
• allegations in complaint must be “construed favorably to the plaintiff’
• allegations in complaint should be construed favorably to pleader

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).