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 gross negligence n. carelessness in reckless disregard for the safety or lives of others, which is so great it appears to be a conscious violation of other people's rights to safety. It is more than simple inadvertence, but it is just shy of being intentionally evil. If one has borrowed or contracted to take care of another's property, then gross negligence is the failure to actively take the care one would of his/her own property., strict products liability, and cruel and unusual punishment arising out of a pipeline leak near the prison. The plaintiffs were forcibly 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 Federal question n. one basis for filing a lawsuit in federal district court is that it is based on subjects enumerated in the U. S. Constitution or when a federal statute is involved. Thus, existence of such federal question gives the federal court jurisdiction. for which federal jurisdiction existed, dismissed the case. (Texas Department of Corrections, Liberty County, Texas)
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