William Sim Spencer v. Michael J. Bouchard

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• concluding that exposing a prisoner to cold temperatures for several months could violate the Eighth Amendment
• concluding that it is proper to dismiss claims where the prisoner has failed to satisfy Prison Litigation Reform Act's (“PLRA”) administrative exhaustion requirement
• describing the protections of the Due Process Clause to be “similar if not greater” than those under the Eighth Amendment
• finding an Eighth Amendment violation where the cold and wet conditions were prolonged, officers failed to take reasonable measures to abate the cold for the inmates, and officers actively interfered with inmates' own attempts to alleviate the cold
• “The objections must be clear enough to enable the district court to discern those issues that are dispositive and contentious.”
• “[O]bjections disput[ing] the correctness of the magistrate’s recommendation but fail[ing] to specify the findings . . . believed [to be] in error are too general.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).