No. 20-7061

Frank Durand Tomlin v. Todd E. Ishee

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-02-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 8th-amendment basic-human-needs civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection prison-conditions public-policy standing
Latest Conference: 2021-04-16
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does prison officials' issuance of hygiene and cosmetics that do not work to prisoners constitute deprivation of a basic human need objectively sufficiently serious enough to be grounds for a claim of prison conditions violative of the Eighth Amendment?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED DOES PRIS6N OF FECTALS ISSUANCE OF HYGIENE AND COSMETICS THAT DOT WORK TC PRISCHERS CONSTLTUTE DEPRINATLION GF A BASLC HUMAN NEED GBIECTIVELY SUF ELCLENMTLY SERLOUS ENOUGH TO BE GRounDS FORA CLAIM OF PRISON CONDITIONS VEGLATIVE OFTHE EZENT AMENDMENT

Docket Entries

2021-04-19
Petition DENIED.
2021-03-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/16/2021.
2021-01-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 8, 2021)

Attorneys

Frank Durand Tomlin
Frank Durand Tomlin — Petitioner