Legal Opinion
Bragdon v. Abbott
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 26, 1998No. 97-156PublishedCited by 1,331 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
We address in this ease the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 104 Stat. 327,42 U. S. C. § 12101 et seq., to persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We granted certiorari to review, first, whether HIV infection is a disability under the ADA when the infection has not yet progressed to the so-called symptomatic phase; and, second, whether the Court of Appeals, in affirming a grant of summary judgment, cited sufficient material in the record to determine, as a matter of law, that respondent’s infection with HIV posed no direct threat to the…
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