Robinson v. Pinderhughes

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• holding that refusal to make minor modifications to prison toilets to accommodate inmate’s disability consti- tuted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of Eighth Amendment
• concluding that defendants had violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide plaintiff with access to a toilet with safety bars that eventually resulted in plaintiff falling and breaking his leg
• holding plaintiff’s § 1983 claims moot because he was transferred to another correctional facility and court’s decision could no longer affect the rights of the parties where there was “no suggestion that the wrong could or would be repeated” be defendant
• wheelchair-bound plaintiff housed in location without handicap facilities had to drag himself to the toilet, and would sometimes slip down into the toilet bowl water
• con- cluding that whether a claim is moot \is a jurisdictional question that the court is obliged to consider sua sponte whenever it arises\
• Eighth Amendment prohibits infliction of pain that is totally without penological justification

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