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No Qualified Immunity for Prison Officials on Tobacco Smoke Complaints
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2004, page 26
No Qualified Immunity for Prison Officials
Filed under:
Disabled Prisoners,
Blind Prisoners,
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Diabetes,
Escapes,
Smoking,
Appeals,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
Delaware.
on Tobacco Smoke Complaints
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of summary judgment and qualified immunity for the Delaware prison guards who exposed a prisoner to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and retaliated against him when he ...
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