Helling v. McKinney
- Decided
- June 18, 1993
- Docket
- 91-1958
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
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What later courts said
- holding that prisoner stated an Eighth Amendment claim by alleging that prison officials had acted with deliberate indifference to his exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke — Bruce Rogers v. Shawna Boatright (2013)
- concluding that prisoner stated a claim where he was forced to share a cell with a five-pack- per-day smoker — Atkinson v. Taylor (2003)
- holding that prisoner must establish both subjective and objective component to establish claim of deliberate indifference — Arnold v. Moore (1997)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Justice White delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case requires us to decide whether the health risk posed by involuntary exposure of a prison inmate to environ [*28] mental tobacco smoke (ETS) can form the basis of a claim for relief under the Eighth Amendment.
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Statutes cited
Cite this
Helling v. McKinney, 509 U.S. 25 (1993)Read the full opinion
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