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Lawsuit filed against home that rejected HIV patient
June 23rd, 2004
A lawsuit claiming a southeastern Louisiana nursing home rejected a stroke victim because he is infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS was filed June 1, 2004, in federal court. The family of Cecil Little Jr., 50, filed a discrimination complaint in July, 2003, with the federal government against six nursing homes, claiming all accepted him, then changed their minds after finding out he had AIDS. One of the six homes named in that complaint, Kentwood Manor in Kentwood, later accepted Little, who now lives at that home. June 1, 2004, New Orleans attorney Alexandra Mora, working with Lambda Legal, filed the first of what she...
Source: Elder Law Weekly (2004-06-23)
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