POSNER, Circuit Judge. This appeal concerns the outer bounds of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, the use of summary judgment, and the standards for requesting counsel to *427 assist indigents in civil cases. The plaintiff, Steven Hughes, is an inmate in an Il…
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