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...pertaining to private computer files is the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970. Under its provisions, credit-rating bureaus must give people access to their own credit files and the opportunity to correct mistakes. But the law is weakened by the fact that companies are not required to inform people that files on them have been opened...
Colorado's defense for its tough stance on AIDS takes this argument even further. Since last month physicians have been required by law to violate the doctor-patient relationship by reporting the names of those who test positive for the virus; the state then makes an active effort to inform sexual contacts. There is legal precedent for such measures. In a 1977 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York State law that called on pharmacists to turn in the names of customers with prescriptions for narcotics popular in the drug underworld...
...result of a joke about North. He did not elaborate.) Hakim told the congressional committees that the $200,000 was a "death benefit" for North's wife and four children. Knowing that U.S. officials are forbidden by law to accept outside contributions, Hakim says he did not inform North of the account...
...them with the sometimes painful and debilitating condition. Genital herpes, most commonly caused by the herpes simplex Type 2 virus, is thought to have infected up to 20 million Americans, and has no cure. The surge of litigation is largely based on the claim that one partner did not inform the other about his or her infection. This, the suits often charge, constitutes negligence...
...state that exerts substantial legal influence beyond its boundaries. The decision upheld the right of Jane Maharam, 56, to sue her former husband Robert, 56, on her claim that he had herpes and did not tell her. The court found that such partners have a legal duty to inform each other about their venereal diseases. Jane, who was married to Robert, an entrepreneur, for 31 years before the couple were divorced in 1984, is seeking damages of more than $2.5 million. The manager of a record company in Manhattan, she says she had few reservations about filing a suit charging...