disclosure of HIV status to sex partners

Out Gay Federal Judge Rejects Anonymity for Genderqueer Trans-Masculine Plaintiff

 

U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken, himself the first out gay man to be appointed a federal trial judge, has granted a motion by the defendants in an employment discrimination case to lift an order he had previously issued allowing the plaintiff, a “genderqueer and transmasculine” individual, to proceed anonymously as “Jamie Doe” in a discrimination lawsuit against their former employer, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services, and two of Fedcap’s supervisors. Judge Oetken gave the plaintiff … <Read More>

New York Appellate Division Rebuffs Syracuse D.A. on Felony Charges in HIV Exposure Case

A unanimous five-judge panel of the New York Appellate Division, 4th Department, has rejected an argument by the office of Syracuse District Attorney William Fitzpatrick that an HIV-positive man should face felony charges carrying a mandatory minimum prison term for exposing another person to HIV by failing to disclose his infection before engaging in unprotected sex.  The court approved a decision by Onondaga County Supreme Court Justice John J. Brunetti to reduce the charge to … <Read More>