Bryce Cooper Comments on Military Ban on People Living With HIV in Advocate

Winston & Strawn Partner Bryce Cooper recently commented on the U.S. Military policy that prevents people living with HIV from enlisting in the U.S. Armed Forces in an article for Advocate. A Winston team is serving as co-counsel on a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia challenging this policy, which requires applicants for appointment and enlistment to be screened for HIV and denies entry to those who test positive. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three individual plaintiffs who were denied enlistment due to their HIV status. 

“The military ban on Americans living with HIV is yet another holdover from a long era of needless discrimination,” Bryce stated. “The time has long passed for this senseless policy to end.”

Read the full Advocate article here.