October 05, 2023
A Virginia federal judge has declined to rule the Pentagon in contempt for allegedly failing to abide by injunctions blocking its restrictive former policies for HIV-positive troops, saying a delay in scheduling training for one of the plaintiffs in an action challenging related DOD policies was not malicious.
June 09, 2022
The U.S. Department of Defense waved the white flag in its legal battle with HIV-positive service members, unveiling new enlistment policies that would prevent certain, infected service members from being booted from the military or barred from promotions for their HIV-status.
April 21, 2022
A Virginia federal judge on Thursday unsealed a decision stopping the U.S. Army and Air Force from discharging or blocking the promotions for asymptomatic HIV-positive servicemembers with undetectable viral loads, ruling that underlying HIV policies were "irreconcilable" with current medical evidence.
April 06, 2022
A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday issued a permanent injunction preventing the U.S. Department of Defense from discharging any asymptomatic HIV-positive service members with undetectable viral loads, siding with challengers who argued the policy unconstitutionally singled out those who are HIV-positive.
March 30, 2020
A Virginia federal court on Friday refused to shut out an advocacy organization from a National Guardsman and two Air Force members' suits accusing the U.S. Department of Defense of upholding a policy that unconstitutionally singles out HIV-positive service members.
May 22, 2019
A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday largely affirmed a magistrate's order requiring the U.S. Department of Defense to cough up hundreds of allegedly privileged documents as part of a challenge to its HIV policy, but allowed the Pentagon to hold back certain draft documents.
September 14, 2018
A Virginia federal judge refused Friday to dismiss an Army National Guardsman's challenge to the U.S. Department of Defense's HIV policy, but also declined to grant an injunction against the policy being used to discharge HIV-positive troops, after the DOD had clarified how the HIV policy interacted with its retention policy.
August 17, 2018
The U.S. Department of Defense on Thursday asked a Virginia federal court to dismiss a Guardman's challenge to its HIV policy, saying the long-standing policy is not being used alongside a recent retention policy to automatically discharge HIV-positive troops and that the court lacks jurisdiction to review the HIV policy, regardless.
July 19, 2018
A U.S. Army National Guardsman asked a Virginia federal court Thursday to temporarily block the U.S. Department of Defense from using its "deploy or get out" policy against any HIV-positive service members while his challenge to the DOD's broader HIV policy is resolved, saying people are already being discharged under the new deployment policy.
May 30, 2018
An Army National Guardsman sued the U.S. Department of Defense in Virginia federal court Wednesday claiming that policies that variously exclude or limit the military service of HIV-positive people, which have denied him a military lawyer position and may cost him his place in the military altogether, are unconstitutional.