Blackmon v. Garza, No. 11-40316 (5th Cir.) (484 Fed.Appx. 866) (July 30, 2012) (Per Curiam)
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In an extremely wary decision that the panel specifically directed should not be published or treated as precedential, a panel from the Fifth Circuit held that “allowing a prisoner to be exposed to extreme temperatures can constitute a violation of the Eighth Amendment.”
That ruling came in a civil …
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