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AIDSWEEK: Benchmarks in the Legal Struggle




 

San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (11/05/89), P. A8

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that a Nebraska social service agency could not perform mandatory HIV tests on its employees who work with the mentally retarded....A San Francisco Superior Court judge set a limit of $250,000 on awards for pain and suffering from blood banks to people infected with HIV by contaminated blood....Concord, Calif., was preparing for the nation's first public vote on an AIDS antidiscrimination issue, a petition to repeal a city ordinance banning bias against people with AIDS in housing, employment, and other areas....Gregory Scoggins, 27, of Marietta, Ga., was convicted of attempted murder for biting a police officer while trying to get out of a choke hold. Scoggins carries HIV. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.



 


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