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.