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· 4/10/2008

Townsend v. Fuchs

Citations

  • 522 F.3d 765
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 7641
  • 2008 WL 962835

How courts have described this case

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

  • affirming the district court’s finding of no liberty interest in avoiding placement in discretionary segregation and stating that the issue of cell conditions “is best analyzed as a claim brought under the Eighth Amendment”
  • prisoner’s testimony about his unanswered complaints of harmful conditions was sufficient to survive summary judgment
  • “The issue of the cell conditions in TLU is best analyzed as a claim brought under the Eighth Amendment.”
  • “The issue of cell conditions in TLU is best analyzed as a claim brought under the Eighth Amendment.”
  • “The issue of cell conditions in TLU is best analyzed as a claim brought under the Eighth Amendment.”
  • fifty-nine day placement in TLU did not implicate liberty interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Easterbrook, Ripple, Kanne

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