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BRAGDON v. ABBOTT

Opinion of the Court

In re Rosebud Sioux Tribe, No. 93–504–1, 1994 WL 603015
(Dept. of Health & Human Servs. Departmental Appeals Bd.,
July 14, 1994); In re Martin, No. 01954089, 1997 WL 151524,
*4 (EEOC, Mar. 27, 1997).

Every court which addressed the issue before the ADA
was enacted in July 1990, moreover, concluded that asympto-
matic HIV infection satisﬁed the Rehabilitation Act’s deﬁni-
tion of a handicap. See Doe v. Garrett, 903 F. 2d 1455, 1457
(CA11 1990), cert. denied, 499 U. S. 904 (1991); Ray v. School
Dist. of DeSoto County, 666 F. Supp. 1524, 1536 (MD Fla.
1987); Thomas v. Atascadero Uniﬁed School Dist., 662
F. Supp. 376, 381 (CD Cal. 1987); District 27 Community
School Bd. v. Board of Ed. of New York, 130 Misc. 2d 398,
413–415, 502 N. Y. S. 2d 325, 335–337 (Sup. Ct., Queens Cty.
1986); cf. Baxter v. Belleville, 720 F. Supp. 720, 729 (SD Ill.
1989) (Fair Housing Amendments Act); Cain v. Hyatt, 734
F. Supp. 671, 679 (ED Pa. 1990) (Pennsylvania Human Rela-
tions Act).
(For cases ﬁnding infection with HIV to be a
handicap without distinguishing between symptomatic and
asymptomatic HIV, see Martinez ex rel. Martinez v. School
Bd. of Hillsborough Cty., 861 F. 2d 1502, 1506 (CA11 1988);
Chalk v. United States Dist. Ct., 840 F. 2d 701, 706 (CA9
1988); Doe v. Dolton Elementary School Dist. No. 148, 694
F. Supp. 440, 444–445 (ND Ill. 1988); Robertson v. Granite
City Community Unit School Dist. No. 9, 684 F. Supp. 1002,
1006–1007 (SD Ill. 1988); Local 1812, AFGE v. United States
Dept. of State, 662 F. Supp. 50, 54 (DC 1987); cf. Association
of Relatives and Friends of AIDS Patients v. Regulations
and Permits Admin., 740 F. Supp. 95, 103 (PR 1990) (Fair
Housing Amendments Act).) We are aware of no instance
prior to the enactment of the ADA in which a court or
agency ruled that HIV infection was not a handicap under
the Rehabilitation Act.

Had Congress done nothing more than copy the Rehabili-
tation Act deﬁnition into the ADA, its action would indicate