Howe v. Hull

How courts have described this case

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• holding on-call admitting physician “operated” 6 within the meaning of the ADA because he was in a 7 position of authority at the hospital, was vice chief 8 of staff and medical director of special service, and 9 had authority to admit patients
• hospital which operates as a public accommodation subject to the ADA and individual physician in hospital subject to personal liability under the ADA as well
• jury awarded HIV-positive patient whom hospital refused treatment and inappropriately referred elsewhere $62,000 in compensatory damages and a total of $450,000 in punitive damages
• “AIDS and HIV infection are both disabilities within the meaning of ADA”
• jury awarded $62,000 in Rehabilitation Act suit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).