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· 6/30/1941

Woodson v. McAllister

Citations

  • 121 F.2d 126
  • 1941 U.S. App. LEXIS 3173

How courts have described this case

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  • court took judicial notice that intimate sexual contact whereby blood or semen of an infected person is transferred to an uninfected person is a primary method of spreading the infection
  • statute penalizing criminal transmission of the HIV did not implicate First Amendment rights

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Judges: Holmes, Hutcheson, McCord

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