Sir?
This is the supplement.
You're right. There is a section on HIV-related discrimination.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
We do have a private research room available.
I'm fine right here.
Do you know where I can find the State vs. Murdoch case?
I'll be right with you.
Wouldn't you be more comfortable in a research room?
No. Would it make you more comfortable?
Beckett, how you doing?
Counselor.
Whatever, sir.
Excuse me.
-Who'd you get? -What?
Did you find a lawyer?
I'm a lawyer.
-Hey, how's your baby? -Oh, yeah. She's wonderful. Great.
-What's her name? -Larice.
That's a beautiful name.
Named her after my sister.
Look, I'm....
How'd they find out you have AIDS?
One of the partners noticed a lesion on my forehead.
But how do you go from...?
How do you go from that, which could have been anything...
...to deducing that you have AIDS...
...and terminating you on that basis?
That's a good point.
The partner who spotted the lesion, Walter Kenton...
...worked for Walsh, Ulmer & Brahm in D.C.
A paralegal there, Melissa Benedict, showed lesions on and off for 2 years.
It was common knowledge that her lesions were caused by AIDS.
-But they didn't fire her. -No, they did not fire her.
I see. So you got a relevant precedent?
-The Arline decision. -Arline?
Supreme Court.
"The Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973...
...prohibits discrimination against handicapped persons...
...who are able to perform the duties required by their employment.
Although the ruling did not specify AIDS discrimination--"
"--subsequent decisions have held that AIDS is protected as a handicap...
...because of the physical limitations it imposes...
...and the prejudice surrounding AIDS, exacts a social death...
...which precedes the actual physical one."
"This is the essence of discrimination.
Formulating opinions about others not based on their merits...
...but on their membership in a group with the same characteristics."