Wayne Powell, as of the Estate of Dana Kimberly Devilla v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent Thomas A. Coughlin, III C.O. Lynch C.O. Crowley

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• holding that unnecessary disclosure of prisoner’s HIV and transsexual status subjected prisoner to unnecessary risk of harm
• holding that protection is generally provided to serious medical conditions that, if disclosed, are likely to provoke hostility and intolerance from others
• concluding that “the gratuitous disclosure of an inmate’s confidential medical information as humor or gossip . . . violates the inmate’s constitutional right to privacy”
• holding that “the Constitution does indeed protect the right to maintain the confidentiality of one’s [transgender status]”
• holding that protection is generally provided to serious medical conditions that, if disclosed, are likely to provoke hostility and intolerance from others
• holding that transsexual prisoner possessed a privacy right of confidentiality in his medical records because disclosure would likely provoke hostility and intolerance

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