Eighth Amendment definition

Eighth Amendment means the Eighth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of May 23, 2014 among the Borrower, EPL, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the other Persons party thereto.
Eighth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of Operating Partnership, dated September 14, 2001 (filed with the Company’s Amended Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 14, 2001). Ninth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of Operating Partnership, dated October 6, 2001 (filed with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K on March 27, 2003). Tenth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of Operating Partnership, dated December 29, 2001 (filed with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K on March 27, 2003).

Examples of Eighth Amendment in a sentence

  • Neither does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the imposition of mandatory sentences -- “severe, mandatory penalties may be cruel, but they are not unusual in the constitutional sense ...

  • Harmelin v Michigan, 501 US 957; 111 S Ct 2680; 115 L Ed2d 836 (1991).In People v Bullock, 440 Mich 15; 485 NW2d 866 (1992), the Michigan Supreme Court held that the Michigan Constitution prohibits cruel or unusual punishment while the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution bars only punishment that is both cruel and unusual.

  • The Eighth Amendment is only concerned with “deprivations of essential food, medical care, or sanitation” or “other conditions intolerable for prison confinement.” Rhodes, 452 U.S. at 348 (citation omitted).

  • Thus, a complaint that a physician has been negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.

  • The Eighth Amendment explicitly prohibits the infliction of “cruel and unusual punishment.” U.S. Const.


More Definitions of Eighth Amendment

Eighth Amendment means that certain Eighth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2021, by and among the Borrowers, the other Guarantors party thereto, the Lenders and Issuing Banks party thereto, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Swing Line Lender.
Eighth Amendment means that certain Eighth Amendment, dated as of March 29, 2019, among Holdings, the Borrower, the other Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Required Revolving Credit Lenders, the Revolving Letter of Credit Issuers and the various other parties party thereto.
Eighth Amendment means the Eighth Amendment to this Loan Agreement dated as of October 31, 2012 between Borrower and Bank.
Eighth Amendment means the Eighth Amendment dated March 11, 2013 among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as the 2013 Additional Term Loan Lender.
Eighth Amendment means the Eighth Amendment, dated as of the Eighth Amendment Effective Date, to this Agreement by and among the Borrowers, U.S. Holdings, Successor Holdings, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the lenders party thereto.
Eighth Amendment means that certain Amendment No. 8 to Unsecured Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of October 4, 2022, among the Borrower, the Lenders and the Agent.