· 9/9/1982
Winston Holloway v. Robert Gunnell, Warden, Fci
Citations
- 685 F.2d 150
- 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 25780
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- finding that “two days of discomfort” which included “a plumbing problem” that “resulted in the cutoff of water to [plaintiff’s] cell for several hours” did not constitute an Eighth Amendment violation
- finding that “two days of discomfort” which included “a plumbing problem” that “resulted in the cutoff of water to [plaintiff’s] cell for several hours” did not constitute an Eighth Amendment violation
- serving time in prison “is not a guarantee that one will be safe from life’s occasional inconveniences.”
- declining to resolve unclear venue 11 issue and reviewing the dismissal of a prisoner’s complaint for the sufficiency of 12 his factual allegations
- no claim stated where prisoner forced to spend two 10 || days in hot dirty cell with no water
- “[A] sentence in prison is not a guarantee that one will be safe from life's occasional inconveniences”
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Judges: Clark, Randall, Reavley, Reayley
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