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Ninth Circuit· 3/25/1997

Somers v. Thurman

Citations

  • 109 F.3d 614
  • 97 Daily Journal DAR 3919
  • 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2114
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 5482
  • 1997 WL 131825

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that “[t]o hold that gawking, pointing, and joking violates the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment would trivialize the objective component of the Eighth Amendment test and render it absurd”
  • concluding that “[t]o hold that gawking, pointing, and joking violates the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment would trivialize the objective component of the Eighth Amendment test and render it absurd”
  • stating that the Supreme Court “may have intended to strip the inmates of all Fourth Amendment privacy rights”
  • stating that the Supreme Court “may have intended to strip the inmates of all Fourth Amendment privacy rights”
  • stating that the Supreme Court \may have intended to strip the inmates of all Fourth Amendment privacy rights\
  • stating that the Supreme Court \may have intended to strip the inmates of all Fourth Amendment privacy rights\

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Judges: Bryan, Nelson, Trott

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42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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