Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Mrozek

How courts have described this case

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• holding that inmate’s claim for injunctive relief requesting transfer to a smoke-free housing unit, based on alleged exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke, was rendered moot by his transfer to a different facility
• finding transferred prisoner’s claim moot “[t]o the extent that [he] asks for injunctive relief against officials at [former prison]”
• affirming dismissal of claim for injunctive relief as moot where prisoner “transferred from prison of which he complained to a different facility”
• noting rule that “prisoner’s claim for declaratory and injunctive relief against certain prison officials [becomes] moot once the prisoner [i]s transferred from the prison of which he complained to a different facility”
• “To the extent that [the plaintiff] asks for injunctive relief against officials at [his former facility], his claim is moot.”
• a prisoner’s claims for declaratory and injunctive relief are moot when the prisoner is transferred from the prison about which he complains

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).