Legal Opinion
Jenkins v. Skinner
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided September 10, 1991No. Civ. A. 91-0506-APublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ELLIS, District Judge.
This is an employment discrimination case under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §§ 791, 794 (the “Act”). Plaintiff, the executor of the estate of R.L. Wilkinson, claims that his decedent was the victim of employment discrimination by defendants on the basis of decedent’s handicap. More specifically, decedent was employed by the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) as an Air Traffic Control Specialist. In the summer of 1989 while on vacation, decedent tested positive for the Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (“HIV”). When he returned to Dulles Airport, his…
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