Reuters
American made tentative job offers in 1998 and 1999 to Walber Leonel, Richard Branton and Vincent Fusco pending medical and background checks. Blood tests found the men were HIV positive, a condition they declined to list on a medical history form in their applications, and the job offers were rescinded.
The men sued American, a unit of AMR Corp., claiming the airline had acted improperly and that the blood tests violated their right to privacy. A lower court dismissed the cases, but the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco ruled the men had a right to a hearing.
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