Burleson v. Glass.

• Position: Prisoners sues prison officials of deliberately indifference - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE

WORK ASSIGNMENT

Burleson v. Glass, 268 F.Supp.2d 699 (W.D.Tex. 2003). A prisoner brought a civil rights action alleging that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his health when they allowed him to weld with thoriated tungsten electrodes during the two years he worked as a welder at the prison's stainless steel plant. The district court held that a physician's opinion that exposure to thoriated tungsten welding rods causes lung and/or throat cancer was not reliable or relevant because it had never been tested nor submitted for peer review. The court...