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Seventh Circuit Rejects ETS Claim
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2001, page 32
The U.S. court of appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a pretrial detainee's injuries from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) were not sufficiently serious to support a due process claim, and that he could not recover for future injuries absent some showing of an increased risk of developing ...
Filed under:
Respiratory,
Smoking,
Eighth Amendment,
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
Injunctions,
Mootness.
Location:
Illinois.
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