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ACLU Tells Peace Corps To Stop Barring People With HIV From Serving As Volunteers (04/21/2008)
NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the Peace Corps today demanding that it change its policy of barring people with HIV from serving as volunteers. The ACLU sent the letter on behalf of a Denver volunteer who was sent home from his post in the Ukraine and terminated after he tested positive for HIV.

ACLU Tells Alabama RV Park to Stop Discriminating Against People with HIV (07/16/2007)
MONTGOMERY, AL – The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the owner of the Wales West RV park in Silverhill, Alabama today demanding that it stop discriminating against people with HIV by barring people with the disease from using the swimming pool, showers and other common areas of the park without a letter from a doctor. 

ACLU Sues West Virginia Police Chief Who Blocked Life-Saving Measures for Gay Heart Attack Victim Assumed to Be HIV Positive (03/02/2006)
CHARLESTON, WV – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal discrimination lawsuit on behalf of the surviving family members of a Welch man who died of a heart attack after the police chief physically prevented his friend from performing CPR. The police chief blocked the CPR because he falsely assumed that the man, who was gay, was HIV positive and therefore a health risk.

Global AIDS Gag Holds Critical Funding Captive to Politics (11/09/2005)
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed deep concern about a U.S. government policy that ties the hands of public health service providers and those who work with them in the global fight against AIDS.

ACLU Urges State to Clarify Regulation Used by Cosmetology School to Justify Kicking Out HIV Positive Student (06/02/2005)
LITTLE ROCK -- The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the Arkansas Board of Cosmetology today asking it to clarify a state regulation that has been used as the justification by a Paragould-based cosmetology school to expel an HIV-positive student.

Peace Corps - Demand Letter (04/21/2008)

Peace Corps - Jeremiah Johnson's Termination Papers (02/12/2008)

Letter to Wales West RV Park Regarding Non-Discrimination Policies in Public Accommodations (07/16/2007)

Estate of Claude Green v. Robert Bowman - Ruling on Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (12/22/2006)

Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiff-Appellees Alliance for Open Society International, et al. v. U.S. Agency for International Development (12/21/2006)
Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiff-Appellees Alliance for Open Society International, et al. v. U.S. Agency for International Development

Doe v. A Nebraska Restaurant (11/13/2003)
This is the original state complaint in the case of Priscilla Doe v. A Nebraska Restaurant, an HIV discrimination case

Estate of Claude Green v. Robert Bowman - Case Background (03/02/2006)

Couture v. Belle Bonfils (04/13/2005)

HIV & Civil Rights
Know Your Rights in the Workplace (11/21/2006)

HIV & Civil Rights
Know Your Rights in the Workplace (11/21/2006)

HIV Advocacy on Behalf of Peace Corps Volunteer (04/21/2008)

Estate of Claude Green v. Robert Bowman - Case Profile (02/27/2006)

Dugas - Arkansas Board of Cosmetology (06/02/2005)
Allan Dugas was kicked out of cosmetology school because of his HIV status. SETTLED

Couture v. Belle Bonfils (04/13/2005)
Colorado HIV employment discrimination. Status: The 10th Circuit Court upheld a lower court ruling against Couture.

Priscilla Doe v. A Nebraska Restaurant (04/01/2005)
Priscilla Doe (not her real name) was fired from her job as a hostess at a small restaurant in rural Nebraska because her employer learned that she is HIV positive.