Legal Opinion
Onishea v. Hopper
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 4, 1997No. 96-6213PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Senior Circuit Judge:
The Alabama Department of Corrections (“DOC”) prohibits inmates who test positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (“HIV”) from participating in most of the educational, vocational, rehabilitative, religious, and recreational programs offered in state prisons. The appellant class, which consists of Alabama inmates who are HIV-positive (“HIV+” or “seropositive”), claims that excluding HIV+ prisoners from these programs violates the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Section 504, 29 U.S.C. § 794 (“section 504” or “the Act”). A prior panel of this court, on an appeal…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Onishea v. HopperCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1999
- Edwards v. Alabama Department of CorrectionsDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2000
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