183707P.pdf   04/29/2020  Danzel Stearns  v.  Inmate Services Corporation
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-3707
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Jonesboro   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Kelly and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. In action alleging defendant 
   violated plaintiff's civil rights as a pretrial detainee by subjecting him 
   to an eight-day, cross-country extradition journey in which he was forced 
   to sit shackled, with only momentary breaks for bathroom use, defendant 
   was not entitled to summary judgment on the current record; because this 
   case is based on a pretrial detainee's right to be free from punishment, 
   it is governed by the objective standard of Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S.C. 
   520 (1979); the conditions of plaintiff's confinement were far from de 
   minimis and a jury could reasonably conclude that, on this record, the 
   conditions were arbitrary or excessive when compared with the government's 
   perceived goal of securely transporting plaintiff from Colorado to 
   Mississippi. Judge Stras, concurring in the judgment.