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No Immunity for AIDS RA Claim

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1996 published in Prison Legal News February, 1996, page 19
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Misdiagnosis, Rehabilitation Act, Eleventh Amendment Immunity, Qualified Immunity. Location: New York.
Afederal district court in New York has held that a state agency, the DOCS, did not enjoy immunity from suit under 29 U.S.C. § 794, the Rehabilitation Act (RA). Edward Timmons, a New York state prisoner, was wrongly diagnosed as having AIDS in 1984. As a result of the misdiagnosis …

 

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