U.S. District Court: WORKING CONDITIONS.Abarca v. Chevron U.S.A. 75 F.Supp.2d 566 (E.D.Tex. 1999). Prison employees and prison inmates, more than 1,000 total, sued the owner and operator of a pipeline and contractors who sold, installed and maintained the pipeline's valves, alleging assault, negligence, gross negligence An indifference to, and a blatant violation of, a legal duty with respect to the rights of others. Gross negligence is a conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, which is likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm to persons, property, or , strict products liability, and cruel and unusual punishment Such punishment as would amount to torture or barbarity, any cruel and degrading punishment not known to the Common Law, or any fine, penalty, confinement, or treatment that is so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community. arising out of a pipeline leak near the prison. The plaintiffs were forcibly forc·i·ble adj. 1. Effected against resistance through the use of force: The police used forcible restraint in order to subdue the assailant. 2. Characterized by force; powerful. exposed to gas when they were unable to be evacuated and the inmates were confined to their cells. The district court found that there was no federal question for which federal jurisdiction existed, dismissed the case. (Texas Department of Corrections, Liberty County, Texas Liberty County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the population is 70,154. Its county seat is Liberty6. Geography According to the U.S. ) |
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