Richard Murphy v. Richard E. Walker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that complaint alleging that prisoner spent week and a half in cell without adequate heat, clothing, or bedding stated Eighth Amendment claim
• holding that a broken hand is a serious injury and permanent harm, or “lingering disability” could result absent proper evaluation, possible realignment, and treatment
• holding that broken hand is serious injury and permanent harm or “lingering disability” could result absent proper evaluation, possible realignment, and treatment
• holding that pretrial detainee stated a conditions-of- confinement claim where he alleged that he was confined to a cold cell without clothes and heat for 10 days in the middle of November in Illinois
• noting that bodily restraints may “be used on violent inmates who pose a threat to others or suicidal inmates who pose a threat to themselves”
• explaining that a head injury was sufficiently serious to require immediate attention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).