Palmer v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that plaintiff stated a Constitutional claim when “his only option was to uri- nate and defecate in the confined area that he shared with forty-eight other inmates”
• finding that when an inmate misses one meal it does not rise to the level of a cognizable constitutional injury
• finding that exposure to extreme cold for 17 hours could constitute Eighth Amendment violation
• finding prisoner’s allegation of missing one meal does not rise to the level of a cognizable constitutional injury
• finding in the Eight Amendment context that exposure to cold without adequate protection can state a claim for unconstitutional conditions of confinement
• subjecting prisoner to cold without protection of jackets or blankets “may have risen to the level of a constitutional deprivation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).