"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person."
Still no word yet on how or where this genius caught the TB.
Posted on 06/01/2007 4:24:47 AM PDT by Zakeet
The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
Or Speaker could be sued by fellow airline passengers, especially if any caught the disease from him — which some legal scholars say is much more likely.
"He may be personally liable if someone contracts TB" from being near him on his recent flights to and from Europe, said Peter Jacobson, a University of Michigan professor of public health law. "I can see a jury coming down very hard on someone like that who willfully ignored advice not to travel."
Speaker flew to Europe for his wedding and honeymoon after being advised by health officials not to make the trip because he had TB. Then, while he was in Rome, U.S. health officials told him to stay put because further tests showed he had an even more dangerous, drug-resistant type of TB than previously thought.
The 31-year-old newlywed disregarded those instructions, taking commercial jets to Prague and then Montreal in an attempt to sneak back into the United States.
In an interview earlier this week with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Speaker said he declined to report to Italian health officials because he believed the only lifesaving care for his condition was available in the U.S.
"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person," he told the newspaper. "This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I've cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary-confinement-in-Italy thing."
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"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person."
Still no word yet on how or where this genius caught the TB.
Check out where he got his law degree, then don’t let your kids go there!
Yeah, but I had trouble grasping the words: "Don't Fly".
Yeah there is word. Apparently he toured southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, on some sort of organized junket. It was either charity or legal organization, not sure on that point.
Instead of suing this slime sled, one of his “victims” (I hate that word) could put him out of his misery.
Considering what a lot of so called me go to that part of the world for, you may have your answer.
Just think of the poor clients that may have been in contact with this I'm above the law monster.
Knowingly spread TB halfway around the world he's more of a very well-educated, successful, intelligent terrorist.
He forgot "selfish" and "reckless".
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