Supreme Court· 6/18/1993

Helling v. McKinney

Citations

509 U.S. 25
113 S. Ct. 2475
125 L. Ed. 2d 22
1993 U.S. LEXIS 4210

How courts have described this case

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holding that Eighth Amendment ETS claims must show exposure to levels of ETS that pose an unreasonable health risk and deliberate indifference on the part of prison officials to mitigate risk
recognizing claim of deliberate indifference of officials to exposure to tobacco smoke that poses unreasonable health risk
explaining that, to meet the objective prong of the deliberate indifference test, an inmate must show that the risk he complains of is “so grave that it violates contemporary standards of decency”
recognizing availability of injunctive relief when prisoner exposed to second-hand smoke
finding prison officials may not “be deliberately indifferent to 17 the exposure of inmates to a serious, communicable disease”
discussing a conditions of confinement claim and raising “exposure of inmates to a serious, communicable disease” as an example

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