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Sixth Circuit· 1/31/2011

Williams v. Curtin

Citations

  • 631 F.3d 380
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 1897
  • 2011 WL 284494

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment when their “offending conduct reflects an unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain”
  • holding that temporary “coughing and shortage of oxygen” from a malicious and sadistic deployment of pepper spray rose to the level of a “sufficiently serious” injury
  • holding that prisoner stated a claim of excessive force based on allegations “that, when instructed to ‘pack up,’ he inquired, ‘What for, sir?,’ at which point an ‘assault team’ entered the cell and used a chemical agent on him”
  • holding that prisoner stated a claim of excessive force based on allegations “that, when instructed to ‘pack up,’ he inquired, ‘What for, sir?,’ at which point an ‘assault team’ entered the cell and used a chemical agent on him”
  • finding that “coughing and a shortage of oxygen” is adequately serious, and that—in any case—the “de minimus” nature of an injury is an insufficient basis for dismissal of a complaint
  • finding that inmate, who was subject to a chemical spray despite not disobeying any orders, stated an excessive force claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kennedy, Clay, Kethledge

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