Legal Opinion
Helling v. McKinney
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 18, 1993No. 91-1958PublishedCited by 4,130 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
This case requires us to decide whether the health risk posed by involuntary exposure of a prison inmate to environ*28mental tobacco smoke (ETS) can form the basis of a claim for relief under the Eighth Amendment.
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Respondent is serving a sentence of imprisonment in the Nevada prison system. At the time that this case arose, respondent was an inmate in the Nevada State Prison in Carson City, Nevada. Respondent filed a pro se civil rights complaint in United States District Court under Rev. Stat. § 1979, 42 U. S. C. § 1983, naming as defendants the director of the prison, the warden, the associate…
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