United States Fifth Circuit

A prisoner's intermittent exposure to second-hand smoke is insufficient to objectively show exposure to unreasonably high levels of environmental tobacco smoke to sustain an Eighth Amendment claim prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2001
• Published 08/13/2001

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before EMILIO M. GARZA and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and HINOJOSA , District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William C. Richardson, Angola, LA, pro se.