Ruiz v. Estelle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that violence by prison officers was routine and not restricted to dangerous situations
• acknowledging that “as long as meaningful access to the courts is guaranteed, the states are free to experiment with various means of achieving this goal”
• explaining “treatment must entail more than segregation and close supervision of the inmate patients”
• continuous course of delivery of Agent Orange constituted a single occurrence
• “The fact that unusual 8 accommodations may be necessary, in light of their special needs, to accomplish the 9 provision of minimal conditions of incarceration does not absolve prison officials of their 10 duty toward handicapped inmates.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).