Health Care & Hospital Law
Oct. 5, 2002
Sexual Complications
SAN FRANCISCO - During a July 2000 Alaskan vacation cruise, Thomas Lister discovered medical records showing that his partner, San Francisco Health Commissioner Ron Hill, had HIV. Two years earlier, the Legislature had made intentional sexual transmission of HIV a felony. No one in California has been convicted under that law. Thomas Lister wants Ron Hill to be the first.