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December 5, 2005

State Department HIV Case Back on Appeal

by Staff

December 5, 2005—Lambda Legal filed a challenge today to the State Department’s ban on hiring HIV positive Foreign Service officers, appealing a spring 2005 ruling on a case known as Taylor v. Rice. Lorenzo Taylor, the man behind the lawsuit, passed the department’s Foreign Service exam, but his status nixed an officer job. A federal district court judge ruled in April that he was asking for unfair accommodation. 

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