John Doe v. John T. Wigginton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prison officials did not violate an inmate’s right to privacy when they disclosed his HIV status to a prison correction officer
• holding that the plaintiff’s claim “is foreclosed by the letter and reasoning” of DeSanti
• finding that if injunctive relief ordering state to provide HIV tests to prison inmates upon request were granted, cost of tests would have an ancillary effect on state treasury
• rejecting inmate’s claim that his “constitutional right to privacy” was violated by the disclosure of his HIV infection and reiterating a prior holding that “the Constitution does not encompass a general right to nondisclosure of private information”
• In case where inmate challenged constitutionality of policy which provided AIDS test only to inmates who met certain criteria, court held that Young permits prospective relief requiring future compliance with constitutional requirements
• “[S]ince a[n] official-capacity claim for retroactive relief [usually in the form of money damages] is deemed to be against the State whose officers are the nominal defendants, the claim is barred by the Eleventh Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).