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Exposure to Secondary Smoke Can State Claim
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1993, page 1
Donald McKinney was a Nevada state prisoner who filed a civil rights complaint against prison officials, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that his involuntary exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) from his cellmate's and other inmates' cigarettes posed an unreasonable risk to his health, thus subjecting him to …
Filed under:
Smoking,
Eighth Amendment,
Civil Procedure,
Injunctions,
Expert Witnesses.
Location:
Nevada.
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