Parker v. Asher

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• holding that threatening to shoot inmate with taser gun merely to inflict gratuitous fear and punishment states claim under Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
• concluding that an allegation of verbal threats and aiming a loaded taser gun at an inmate 24 states a cognizable claim of cruel and unusual punishment
• concluding that an allegation of verbal threats and aiming a loaded taser gun at an inmate 13 states a cognizable claim of cruel and unusual punishment
• holding that “guards cannot aim their taser guns at inmate for the malicious purpose of 18 inflicting gratuitous fear. Allegations of such sadistic conduct state a cognizable claim of cruel 19 and unusual punishment.”
• holding that 26 “guards cannot aim their taser guns at inmate for the malicious purpose of inflicting gratuitous 27 fear. Allegations of such sadistic conduct state a cognizable claim of cruel and unusual 28 punishment.”
• noting that the ruling was limited and holding “only that guards cannot aim their taser guns at inmates for the malicious purpose of inflicting gratuitous fear”

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