Legal Opinion
Ecclesiastical Washington v. Larry Denney
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 13, 2018No. 17-2747PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Chief Judge.
Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington brought suit against Larry Denney, Ronda Pash, Cynthia Prudden, and Cheryl Richey, corrections officials (collectively, "corrections officials") at Crossroads Correctional Center ("Crossroads"), for violation of his Eighth Amendment rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . Specifically, he alleged that these officials were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical need by failing to take reasonable steps to abate the risk of harm that secondhand smoke poses to him. He alleged that his long history of asthma and other respiratory conditions…
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