Shimp v. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co
| 1976 | NJ | Negligence | Non-smoking (NS) office worker gets relief from exposure to SHS |
Husain v. Olympic Airways
| 2000 | CA | Negligence | Family of NS passenger who died from exposure to SHS receives money damages |
Magaw v. Middletown Board of Education
| 1998 | NJ | Workers’ compensation | Teacher with cancer caused by exposure to SHS receives compensation |
Ubhi v. State Comp Ins Fund
| 1990 | CA | Workers’ compensation | Waiter with heart attack caused by exposure to SHS receives compensation |
Staron v. McDonald’s Corp
| 1993 | CT | Disability discrimination | Asthmatic plaintiffs’ case proceeds, McDonald’s decides to go smoke-free |
Homeyer v. Stanley Tulchin Associates
| 1995 | IL | Disability discrimination | NS worker’s case proceeds |
Bond v. Sheahan
| 2001 | IL | Disability discrimination | NS corrections officer’s case proceeds |
Zimmerman v. Dept. of Corrections
| 2002 | MI | Disability discrimination | NS corrections office’s case proceeds |
50–58 Gainsborough St. v. Haile
| 1998 | MA | Smoke seepage | NS tenant recovers rent due effect of SHS on her quiet enjoyment of the apartment |
Daniel v. Daniel
| 1998 | GA | Child custody | Smoking mother loses custody of asthmatic child to NS father |
Skidmore-Shafer v. Shafer
| 1999 | AL | Child custody | Mother who smoked around child with health problems loses custody to NS father |
In Re. Julie Anne, A Minor Child
| 2002 | OH | Child custody | Judge issues restraining order against both parents smoking around the child |
In re. Guardianship of A Minor Child
| 2003 | MA | Child custody | A child’s paternal grandparents lose custody because they smoke in his presence |
Helling v. McKinney
| 1993 | NV | Prisoner | US Supreme Court rules that SHS exposure in prison can be cruel and unusual punishment, proscribed by the 8th Amendment of the US Constitution |
Alvarado v. Litscher
| 2001 | WI | Prisoner | Asthmatic inmate claims that prison officials violated his 8th Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment; his lawsuit proceeds |
Atkinson v. Taylor
| 2003 | DE | Prisoner | NS prisoner’s SHS and retaliation claims can proceed |
Leichtman v. WLW Jacor Communications, Inc
| 1994 | OH | Assault and battery | NS guest on radio show claims host deliberately blew smoke at him; lawsuit proceeds |
Broin et al. v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc
| 1991 | FL | Tobacco company defendants | NS flight attendants’ class action lawsuit settled in 1997; claims of individuals can proceed |