DOE v. KOHN NAST & GRAF, P.C.

Civ. A. No. 93-4510.

866 F.Supp. 190 (1994)

John DOE, Esquire (pseudonym for an attorney), Plaintiff, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. KOHN NAST & GRAF, P.C., d/b/a Kohn Klein Nast & Graf, P.C. and Kohn Savett Klein & Graf, P.C., Harold E. Kohn, and Steven Asher, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

October 6, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan B. Epstein, Jablon, Epstein and Wolf, Philadelphia, PA, for John Doe.

John Doe, pro se.

J. Freedley Hunsicker, Jr., Gregg R. Melinson, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Donald J.P. Sweeney, Robyn F. McGrath, Sweeney, Sheehan & Spencer, William J. O'Brien, Conrad, O'Brien, Gellman & Rohn, P.C., Barbara A. O'Connell, Patrick T. Ryan, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, PA, for Kohn Nast & Graf, P.C. and Steven A. Asher.

Carmen R. Matos, Deborah M. Floyd, E.E.O.C., Mary M. Tiernan, Jose L. Perez, E.E.O.C., Philadelphia, PA, for E.E.O.C.

Ronald P. Schiller, Piper & Marbury, Philadelphia, PA, Madeleine Schachter, New York City, for CBS, Inc.

Carl A. Solano, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, PA, for National Broadcasting Co., Inc., and Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.

Carmen R. Matos, E.E.O.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Ellen Braffman.

Robyn F. McGrath, Sweeney, Sheehan & Spencer, William J. O'Brien, Conrad, O'Brien, Gellman & Rohn, P.C., Barbara A. O'Connell, Philadelphia, PA, for Harold E. Kohn.


OPINION

GAWTHROP, District Judge.

This case today before the court on defendants' motion for partial summary judgment, involves a lawyer infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus ["HIV"] who claims that his law firm fired him because of his infection.

The defendants seek summary judgment on the portions of the defamation and invasion of privacy claims that plaintiff added to his second amended complaint; on the defamation and invasion...

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