Johnson v. Pearson.

• Position: Prisoner alleges prison officals for violating his 8th amendment rights - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

SMOKING

Johnson v. Pearson, 316 F.Supp.2d 307 (E.D. Va. 2004). A prisoner brought a civil rights action under [section] 1983 against state prison officials, alleging that they acted with deliberate indifference to his risk of medical harm when they refused to assign him to a nonsmoking cell. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants in part, and denied in part. The court held that the defendants acted with deliberate indifference to the risk of...