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Asbestos Exposure States Claim
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1995, page 16
A district court in Massachusetts has held that a suit claiming exposure to asbestos states a claim for violation of the eighth amendment. County jail prisoners filed suit claiming they were exposed to "raw, open and dry asbestos fibers" on exposed pipes within the jail. The plaintiffs stated they had ...
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