Legal Opinion
Edward Lee Clemmons v. Dale Bohannon, Robert Tansy, Herb Maschner, and Robert Mills
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 14, 1992No. 88-2730PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
TACHA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises from a suit brought by pro se plaintiff Edward Clemmons. Clem-mons, a nonsmoking inmate at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, sued officials of the Kansas Department of Correction under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments arising out of his involuntary subjection to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Clemmons contends that his subjection to smoking cellmates in a shared cell has led to significant involuntary exposure to ETS and that this exposure amounts to…
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3Cited by65 opinions
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