In October 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio announced it would review the HIV criminal law at issue in State of Ohio v. Orlando Batista. In July 2014, Orlando Batista was indicted for felonious assault for allegedly engaging in sexual conduct with his gir ...
admin - 1/4/2017 2:17pm
CHLP assisted the ACLU of Ohio in preparing a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Orlando Batista, who was sentenced to eight years for violating Ohio’s felonious assault statute. ...
admin - 6/14/2017 3:53pm
CHLP filed of a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Michael Johnson, a former Missouri college student sentenced to more than 30 years for violating Missouri’s HIV transmission and exposure statute. The brief argues that Missouri’s criminal HIV law is i ...
admin - 7/28/2016 3:44pm
This is one of two amicus briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of several disability rights and mental health advocacy organizations in the case San Francisco v. Sheehan. The central issue in San Francisco v. Sheehan is how the Americans wi ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:11am
This is one of two amicus briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of several disability rights and mental health advocacy organizations in the case San Francisco v. Sheehan. The central issue in San Francisco v. Sheehan is how the Americans wi ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:12am
This amicus brief was submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court by Lambda Legal and Ropes & Gray asking the court to uphold the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in King v. Burwell, a lawsuit challenging an Internal Revenue Service ( ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:13am
This case involves discrimination based on disability. The complaint, filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) against JPMorgan Chase and individual co-defendants alleges discrimination on the basis of disability, failure to ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:14am
This amicus brief was filed on behalf of more that 40 organizations including The Center for HIV Law and Policy, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in King v. Burwell, a case involving a c ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:15am
This amicus brief was filed by a number of HIV policy and advocacy organizations asking the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn the ruling of a three judge panel of that court in the case Halbig v Burwell. ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:24am
This settlement agreement stems from a complaint, filed with the United States Department of Justice, which alleged that Knoxville Chiropractic Centers (Knoxville Chiropractic) refused to treat an individual on the basis of his HIV status in violation of T ...
admin - 3/9/2016 11:09am