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: The AM Law DailyPaul Hastings Fights Genetic Discrimination Claims Under New Law
By Zach Lowe
Did a Connecticut natural gas retailer violate a new law banning discrimination based on genetic tests when it fired a woman who had a mastectomy after learning she carried the BRCA-2 gene?
Full post as published by The AM Law Daily on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).
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