Legal Opinion
Harris v. Thigpen
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 18, 1991No. Nos. 90-7083, 90-7100PublishedCited by 516 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAY, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs-appellants appeal the post-trial dismissal of their class action civil rights challenge to various policies and procedures of defendant-appellee, the Alabama Department of Corrections (“DOC”). The appellants raise four issues involving the DOC’s policy of uniformly segregating from the general prison population those prisoners who test positive for exposure to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (“HIV”), the virus commonly believed to be the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (“AIDS").
For the following reasons, we AFFIRM the district court’s conclusions as to…
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