Two mistreatment and discrimination lawsuits have been filed by HIV-positive attorneys against their employers. In the first suit, [name removed], a 16-year employee of the American Bar Association (ABA), asks for $16.6 million for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. [Name removed] claims that months after notifying his supervisor that he tested positive for HIV antibodies he was put on probation and then fired. In a separate case, [name removed], an 11-year veteran of the San Francisco law firm of [name removed] & [name removed], filed a one million dollar suit. [Name removed] claims that he was eased out of his corporate law practice after notifying his supervisors that he was HIV-positive.

来源：AIDS policy & law 1996 年 11卷 11期