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Guards Need Not Disclose Identity Of HIV-Positive Cons
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1992, page 3
A prisoner in the medium security unit of a Nebraska state prison brought a federal civil rights lawsuit against the warden and other prison personnel, claiming that they subjected him to cruel and unusual punishment by: (1) conspiring to conceal the identity of prisoners testing positive for HIV, the virus …
Filed under:
Medical,
HIV/AIDS,
Medical Records,
Frivolous Litigation,
Estoppell.
Location:
Nebraska.
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