Legal Analysis
Facts (Harvard, 1991)
1. The case involves New England Telephone Company and Paul Cronan in a suit regarding AIDS in the workplace.
2. The parties involved are Paul Cronan, New England Telephone Company, Charlie O’Brien, Paul Cloran, and Richard Griffin.
3. Paul Cronan was a long-time employee of NET.
4. Cronan requested, for a third time, to leave work to go to a doctor’s appointment. To allow Paul to leave, Charlie O’Brien, Paul’s current supervisor, required that he be told the nature of Paul’s illness.
5. Company policy required supervisors to report anything regarding absenteeism to higher company authorities, in this case, Paul Cloran. The information continued to climb the chain of command.
6. When Pa
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