Wesolowski v. Kamas’s Empirical Analysis
2008
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Rhodes v. Chapman · Hudson v. McMillian · Sostre v. McGinnis
Most-quoted passages
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“[Pjlaintiff's complaints, concerning the prison’s failure to provide him with specific cleaning supplies or the magnitude of its response to an overflowed toilet elsewhere on the cell block, represent minor inconveniences of prison life which ‘are part of the penalty that criminal offenders pay for their offenses against society.’”), aff 'd, 409 Fed.Appx. 476 (2d Cir.2011). . Cf., e.g., Ortiz v. Dep’t of Corr., 2011 WL 2638137 at (Plaintiff”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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