Pearman v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “deliberate indifference” if a fact-based inquiry which should not be summarily disposed of without an adequate record
• concluding that even short exposure to bitter cold may violate Eighth Amendment
• recognizing prisoner’s Bivens claim alleging that he was forced to live in bitterly cold cell
• explaining that “deliberate indifference de- scribes a state of mind more blameworthy than negli- gence”
• upholding reasonableness of digital rectal search against Eighth Amendment challenge because there was no evidence that officials undertook search in “malicious and sadistic fashion for the very purpose of causing harm”
• discussing the guile with which prisoners have se- creted dangerous objects and contraband

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).