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Transsexual Prisoners Have Privacy Right
Loaded on May 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2000, page 28
The U.S. court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that transsexual and HIV+ prisoners have a privacy right to confidentiality of their prison medical records and physical conditions. However, because this principle was not clearly established law, the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity on this, but not on ...
Filed under:
HIV/AIDS,
Medical Records,
Civil Procedure,
State Law Claims,
Disclosure of Records,
Qualified Immunity,
Discrimination (Transgender).
Location:
New York.
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