Gomez-Gomez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How later courts describe this case

• affirming district court’s decree after trial; eighth amendment claim “must be determined on the facts of each case and the evidence in each case should support the existence of any health hazard under the specific circumstances involved”
• disabled inmates must be provided with physical accommodations necessary because of their disabilities, including adequate toilet and shower facilities, as well as wheelchairs and other mobility aids
• “We should, therefore, fashion ‘the least intrusive remedy that will still be effective’ ”
• “[R]ule 53 does not terminate or modify the district court’s inherent equitable power to appoint a person, whatever be his title, to assist it in administering a remedy”
• espousing a “totality of conditions” test