HIV-stricken lawyer tries to educate

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Mauro A. Montoya's interest in AIDS advocacy started in the mid-1980s with referrals from the gay community of AIDS patients who needed help with wills and insurance. In Feb 1986 he started work at the D.C. Aids Clinic and since then has become the director of the District of Columbia School of Law HIV Legal Clinic. In late 1992, after finding out he was himself HIV-positive, he joined the HIV Peer Network and became one of their ombudsmen charged with educating the outside world about the disease.

Personal narratives, Attorneys, Lawyers, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Study and teaching, AIDS (Disease), Montoya, Mauro A.

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Court revisits issue of punitives; chance to set standards?

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The US Supreme Court will again rule on punitive damages in TXO Production Corp v Alliance Resources, Inc. In 1991, the Court ruled in Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co v Haslip that some state court punitive damages procedures might constitute due process violations. TXO, found guilty at trial, argues the need for a formula connecting punitive with compensatory damages, while the attorney defending the original verdict thinks they should be tied to the anticipated gain from the illegal conduct.

Exemplary damages, Punitive damages, Valuation

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