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Seventh Circuit: Health Hazard without Physical Injury Can State a Claim
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2013, page 48
On September 27, 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a prisoner's lawsuit, but noted that seemingly de minimis harm from a vermin infestation may state a cognizable claim.Illinois prisoner Calvin Thomas filed suit in federal court naming the state and the Illinois Department of ...
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