Porter v. Selsky.

• Position: Violation of civil rights - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

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Porter v. Selsky, 287 F.Supp.2d 180 (W.D.N.Y. 2003). A prisoner brought a civil rights action alleging Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment violations. The court held that officials were not deliberately indifferent to conditions that posed a substantial risk of harm to the inmate, even though the inmate was subjected to other inmates who threw feces, set fires, and flooded cells with overflowing toilets. The court noted that the officials spent a...