LECKELT v. BOARD OF COM'RS OF HOSP. DIST. NO. 1

No. 89-3256.

909 F.2d 820 (1990)

Kevin M. LECKELT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF HOSPITAL DISTRICT NO. 1, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. James Kellogg, Lambda Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Ruth Colker, New Orleans, La., Nan D. Hunter, New York City, and Maureen O'Connell, and Ann McClaine, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Daniel J. Walker, Ann Mallett Barker, and Wm. S. Watkins, Watkins and Walker, Houma, La., K. Bruce Stickler, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, Ill., Elmer E. White, III, Kullman, Inman, Bee & Downing, New Orleans, La., and Andrew B. David, Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

James Monroe Smith, Executive Director, Aids Legal Council, Chicago, Ill., for Aids Legal Council of Chicago, amici in support of plaintiff-appellant.

Herbert Semmel, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and Mark Barnes, Asst. Clinical Prof. of Law, New York City, for American Public Health Assoc.

John T. O'Keefe, Cambridge, Mass., for American Soc. of Law & Medicine.

Robert L. Roland and Cathryn S. Long, Watson, Blanche, Wilson & Posner, Baton Rouge, La., for Louisiana Hosp. Assoc., amicus in support of defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, REAVLEY, and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.


GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Kevin Leckelt (Leckelt), formerly a licensed practical nurse at Terrebone General Medical Center (TGMC), a local governmental hospital located in Houma, Louisiana, appeals the dismissal, following a bench trial, of his claim that his rights under various federal and state constitutional and statutory provisions were violated by TGMC's requirement that he submit the results of his human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody...

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