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HIV-Positive Cons Win Partial Victory

Loaded on Jan. 15, 1992 published in Prison Legal News January, 1992, page 5
Filed under: HIV/AIDS, Court Access, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Rehabilitation Act. Location: Michigan.
In a significant victory for prisoners who have been tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court order in a case that had challenged the prisoners' conditions of confinement. Prisoners who have …

 

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