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ROE v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Civ. A. No. 93-0164 (JHG).

842 F.Supp. 563 (1993)

Richard ROE, Plaintiff, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

As Amended February 16, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas B. Mishkin, McKenna & Cuneo, and Joseph M. Sellers, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for plaintiff.

Rena Schild and Karen Maniscalco, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, DC, for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

[M]yths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. Few aspects of a handicap give rise to the same level of public fear and misapprehension as contagiousness.

School Bd. of Nassau County v. Arline, 480 U.S. 273, 284, 107 S.Ct. 1123, 1129, 94 L.Ed.2d 307 (1987...

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