:36:01
But how ..?
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How do you go from that,
which could have been anything, -
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- to deducing that you had AIDS
and terminating you on that basis?
:36:19
That's a good point.
:36:30
The partner who spotted the lesion,
Walter Kenton, -
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- worked forwalsh, Ulmer & Brahm
in D.C.
:36:37
A paralegal there, Melissa Benedict,
showed lesions on and off.
:36:43
It was common knowledge
that she had AIDS.
:36:47
- But they didn't fire her.
- No, they did not fire her.
:36:52
Have you got a relevant precedent?
:36:56
The Arline decision ...
Supreme Court.
:37:18
"The Federal Rehabilitation Act
of 1973, -
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- prohibits discrimination
against handicapped persons -
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- if they can perform the duties
required of them."
:37:30
"Though the ruling did not specify
AIDS discrimination ..."
:37:34
"... subsequent decisions have held
that AIDS is a handicap -
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- because of the physical
limitations it imposes -
:37:43
- and the prejudice surrounding it,
which exacts a social death ...
:37:51
... that proceeds
the actual physical one."