Is asymptomatic AIDS a disability?

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Drafters of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 thought it unnecessary to include a specific statement that HIV-infected individuals were protected from discrimination, after all, both the media and legislators stated that HIV-based discrimination was one of the reasons for the act. Better medical treatment for AIDS and a changing public attitude since then led to a narrower judicial interpretation of disability and gradually to federal court rulings that an asymptomatic AIDS patient did not qualify as disabled.

Laws, regulations and rules, AIDS (Disease), Discrimination against disabled persons, Handicapped discrimination

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Scalia and free speech

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Justice Antonin Scalia continues to be the spokesman for the Supreme Court's conservative wing. He authored the opinion in RAV v City of St Paul, which struck down St. Paul, MN's 'hate crimes' ordinance. Scalia stated that because it was content-based the ordinance was facially invalid. This is surprising because in giving the First Amendment such strong protection, Scalia appeared to go back on his practice in other cases of rejecting First Amendment challenges.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Hate crimes, Scalia, Antonin

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Another bloody skirmish in the free-speech war

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Various cities continue to punish public officials for exercising their freedom of speech while off-duty, in spite of court orders that this may not take place. The Supreme Court ruled in 1995 that a parade was a constitutionally protected expressive event and that its private sponsors had the right to choose even offensive messages. City officials in New York, Boston, and elsewhere seem not to remember that they are sworn to uphold the Constitution.

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