United States Gypsum Co. v. National Gypsum Co.

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• “We need not determine whether any of these incidents individually constituted an Eighth Amendment violation, for the evidence established that the totality of the circumstances in the jails were eondemnable.”
• “We recite the incidents of violence and sexual assault which follow not to exhaustively catalog conditions in the jails but to provide examples of the nature of evidence presented at the hear ings.”
• “The same conditions of violence and sexual abuse which constitute cruel and unusual punishment may also render the confinement of pretrial detainees punishment per se.”
• “The same conditions of violence and sexual abuse which constitute cruel and unusual punishment may also render the confinement of pretrial detainees punishment per se.”
• failure to protect inmates from violence and sexual assault at the hands of other inmates
• failure to protect inmates from violence and sexual assault at the hands of other inmates

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).