State of Iowa v. Marqueis Letrell Lewis Sr

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• concluding that a gratuitous beating by prison guards, even without serious injuries, violated a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights
• concluding that a gratuitous beating by prison guards, even without serious injuries, could violate a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights
• holding that force causing “bruised heel, lower back pain, increased blood pressure as well as migraine headaches and dizziness” could exceed de minimis threshold
• holding that prison guards’ gratuitous beating of an inmate, even without serious injuries, violated the inmate’s Eighth Amendment rights
• holding that an officer’s use of physical force against an inmate who had merely requested a grievance form constituted excessive force
• recognizing that a “‘push or shove’ that causes no discernable injury” is most likely de minimus

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).