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· 9/29/1976

United States v. Winnebago Tribe

Citations

  • 542 F.2d 1002

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that a denial of outdoor exercise may give rise to an Eighth Amendment violation even in response to emergency conditions
  • upholding district court determination that 4 || temporary lockdown restrictions in light of emergency did not cross Eighth Amendment line
  • a prisoner does not have a due process right to a hearing where prison officials implement an emergency lockdown
  • no violation where four weeks after lockdown prisoners allowed one hour of exercise per day
  • outdoor 23 exercise restricted after two murders on the yard and permitted “within a month 24 after the lockdown began”
  • such outdoor exercise can be temporarily denied when prison conditions warrant

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Judges: Heaney, Ross, Stephenson

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