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Physical Injury Rule Applied to Pre-PLRA Asbestos Exposure
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1999, page 13
The court of appeals for the Third Circuit held that a prisoner does not have a cause of action, under 42 U. S. C. section 1983, for damages for emotional distress caused by exposure to asbestos, without proof of physical injury.
Filed under:
Eighth Amendment,
Asbestos,
PLRA,
Physical Injury Rule,
Damages.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
This case began in 1986, a decade before the ...
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