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AIDS Doctor Gets Stay Of Eviction

The New York Times - October 15, 1983


A doctor who treated patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome was granted a temporary injunction yesterday barring tenants of a Greenwich Village cooperative building from evicting him.

Acting Justice Ira Gammerman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ordered the injunction against the tenants' group that owns the building, at 49 West 12th Street.

The eviction "would cause irreparable harm not so much to the doctor but to the people who are his patients," the judge said at a hearing.

The doctor, Joseph A. Sonnabend, is suing the tenants' group, charging that it illegally tried to evict him from his office in the building because he treated patients with AIDS, a disorder that often strikes homosexuals. He said the eviction would violate state human-rights laws.

The injunction will remain in effect until a decision is reached in the suit.


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