Richard A. French v. Norman G. Owens, Richard A. French v. Norman G. Owens, United States of America, Amicus Curiae

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that lack of exercise may rise to a constitutional violation only if the deprivation is such that \movement is denied [to such extent that] muscles are allowed to atrophy [and] the health of the individual is threatened\
• noting that the Eighth Amendment “does not constitutionalize the Indiana Fire Code. Nor does it require complete compliance with the numerous OSHA regulations”
• finding that the “Eighth Amendment does not . . . require complete compliance with the numerous OSHA regulations”
• observing that “[t]he eighth amendment does not constitutionalize the Indiana Fire Code. Nor does it require complete compliance with OSHA regulations.”
• noting that lack of exercise rises to a constitutional violation only if the deprivation is such that “movement is denied [to the extent that] muscles are allowed to atrophy [and] the health of the individual is threatened”
• noting that lack of exercise rises to a constitutional violation only if the deprivation is such that “movement is denied [to the extent that] muscles are allowed to atrophy [and] the health of the individual is threatened”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).