No. 18-9052

Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-05-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment institutional-lighting prison-conditions prisoner-rights sleep-deprivation writ-of-certiorari
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2019-06-06
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Should this Court grant writ of certiorari where lower courts have no guidance on what level of 24-hour lighting is appropriate in prisons so as not to violate the Eighth Amendment, and have therefore upheld bright lighting conditions in spite of serious harms, including sleep deprivation recognized as a form of torture?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED ‘ Should this Court grant writ of certiorari where lower courts have no guidance on what level of 24-hour lighting is appropriate in prisons so as not to violate the Eighth Amendment, and have therefore upheld bright lighting : conditions in spite of serious harms, including sleep deprivation recognized as a form of torture? PARTIES The petitioner is Neil Grenning, a prisoner at the Airway Heights : Corrections Center in Airway Heights, Washington. The defendants are Maggie Miller-Stout, former superintendent at Airway Heights Corrections Center, and : Fred Fox, an employee at Airway Heights Corrections Center. Petition for writ i

Docket Entries

2019-08-23
Rehearing DENIED.
2019-08-01
DISTRIBUTED.
2019-07-03
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2019-06-10
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/6/2019.
2019-05-13
Waiver of right of respondents James Key, et al. to respond filed.
2019-04-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 31, 2019)

Attorneys

James Key, et al.
John Joseph Samson — Respondent
John Joseph Samson — Respondent
Neil Grenning
Neil Grenning — Petitioner
Neil Grenning — Petitioner