Burleson v. Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice.

• Position: MEDICAL CARE - Brief Article

U.S. Appeals Court

WORK ASSIGNMENT

DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE

Burleson v. Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, 393 F.3d 577 (5th Cir. 2004). A prison inmate 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 a prison stainless steel plant. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the inmate and the inmate appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that the inmate's expert did not present any reliable evidence regarding the extent of the inmate's level of harmful exposure and was unable...