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· 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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