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N.O.L. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 94-CV-199.

674 A.2d 498 (1995)

N.O.L., Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 20, 1995.

As Amended April 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Norwind, Washington, DC, with whom Caitlin S. Palacios, Arlington, VA, was on the brief, for appellant.

Edward E. Schwab, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Vanessa Ruiz, Corporation Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before TERRY, SCHWELB, and KING, Associate Judges.

TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant, N.O.L., filed this action against the District of Columbia, seeking damages for the District's failure to inform him that his wife, F.L.,1 had tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the disease known as AIDS. He alleged that the failure of physicians at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, where his wife was a patient in early 1988, to tell him that she was HIV-positive constituted...

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