Currents in Contemporary Ethics

Naylor C. D. Chantler C. Griffiths S. , “Learning from SARS in Hong Kong and Toronto,” JAMA 291, no. 20 (2004): 2483–7, available at <http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/29l/20/2483> (last visited October 3, 2007); Pickles H. , “Using Lessons from the Past to Plan for Pandemic Flu,” BMJ332, no. 7544 (2006): 783–6, available at <http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7544/783> (last visited October 10, 2007).

Markel H. Gostin L. O. Fidler D. P. , “Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: An Isolation Order, Public Health Powers, and a Global Crisis,” JAMA 298, no. 1 (2007): 83–6, available at <http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/298/1/83> (last visited October 3, 2007).

Sebok A. J. , “The Attorney Who Boarded Planes after a Tuberculosis Diagnosis: Why the Other Passengers Are Likely to Be Able to Recover Damages for Fear of Infection,” June 13, 2007, available at <www.findlaw.com> (last visited October 3, 2007).

But still under the Denver Public Health isolation order until July 26.

Altman L. K. , “Traveler's TB Not as Severe as Officials Thought,” New York Times, July 4, 2007, available at <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/health/04tb.html?ex=1341201600&en=98bf436e457548df&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss> (last visited October 3, 2007).

See Sebok , supra note 3.

Reuters Foundation, U.S. Homeland Security Probes TB Fugitive Case , News Release, available at <http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N31202777.htm> (last visited October 3, 2007); O'Connor A. Holusha J. , “TB Patient Is Related to C.D.C. Expert on Disease,” New York Times, May 31, 2007, available at <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/health/31cnd-tb.html?ex=1189224000&en=efe5fb406d57d400&ei=5070> (last visited October 3, 2007).

ABC News, “Exclusive: TB Patient Asks Forgiveness but Defends Travel,” ABC News Web site, June 1, 2007, available at <http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=3231184&page=1> (last visited October 3, 2007).

See Markel Gostin Fidler , supra note 2.

The Associated Press, TB Patient Questions CDC Timeline , MSNBC Web site, available at <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19630992/> (last visited October 3, 2007).

Giacalone D. , “Should They Disbar TuberculEsq?” available at <http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2007/06/01/should-they-disbar-tuberculesq/> (last visited October 3, 2007).

State Bar of Georgia, Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct § 8.4 (2001) available at <http://www.gabar.org/handbook/part_iv_after_january_1_2001_-_georgia_rules_of_professional_conduct/rule_84_misconduct/> (last visited October 3, 2007).

Id. “It shall be a violation of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct for a lawyer to…: Engage in professional conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation”; Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct § 8.4 a).

American Bar Association, Model Rules of Professional Conduct § 8.4 (2000), available at <http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/mrpc_toc.html> (last visited October 9, 2007).

A ninth person listed in the class action is related to one of the passengers but was not on the flight.

Tabri Nassim Urbanova Ludmela Sustkova Eva v. Speaker Andrew , Motion to Institute Proceedings [2007] Superior Court of Quebec.

Baudouin J-L. Deslauriers P. , eds., La responsabilité civile (Civil Responsibility), 6th ed. (Cowansville, Quebec: Éditions Yvon Blais, 2003): at 397.

Legatos J. , “TB Patient's Fellow Passengers Launch Lawsuit,” National Post, July 12, 2007, available at <http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ca8b1b9b-0b72–44e2–8857-dc3453607e26&k=14187> (last visited October 3, 2007). However, according to the Motion, one of the passengers did receive a positive result in an initial tuberculosis skin test. See Tabri Nassim Urbanova Ludmela Sustkova Eva v. Speaker Andrew , supra note 16.

Especially since even in the case of a physical injury (e.g., one of the passengers testing positive for tuberculosis), causality would be extremely difficult to prove.

See Tabri Nassim Urbanova Ludmela Sustkova Eva v. Speaker Andrew , supra note 16.

Civil Code of Québec, R.S.Q. ch. C-1991, § 1457 (1991).

Benedek D. , “Non-Pecuniary Damages: Defined, Assessed and Capped,” Revue juridique Thémis 32 (1998): 607–61.

See Civil Code of Québec, supra note 22, at § 3126.

State power to issue public health detention orders is rooted in state police power; Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U. S. 1 (1824).

Regulations to Control Communicable Diseases, 42 U.S.C. § 264 (a) (2005).

Sampathkumar P. , “Dealing with Threat of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Background Information for Interpreting the Andrew Speaker and Related Cases,” Mayo Clinic Proceedings 82, no. 7 (2007): 799–802, available at <http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/inside.asp?AID=4425&UID=> (last visited October 3, 2007).

Gerberding J. L. , “Recent Case of Extensively Drug Resistant TB: CDC's Public Health Response,” statement before the Committee on Homeland Security, United State House of Representatives, June 6, 2007.

See Markel Gostin Fidler , supra note 2.

Five frameworks for public health ethics are laid out in Bensimon C. M. Upshur R. E. G. , “Evidence and Effectiveness in Decisionmaking for Quarantine,” American Journal of Public Health 97, Supplement 1, no. S1 (2007): 44–8, available at <http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/Supplement_1/S44> (last visited October 3, 2007).

See Sampathkumar , supra note 27.

For a more detailed analysis of treatment orders, see Verma G. Upshur R. E. G. Rea E. Benatar S. R. , “Critical Reflection on Evidence, Ethics and Effectiveness in the Management of Tuberculosis: Public Health and Global Perspectives,” BMC Medical Ethics 5, no. 2 (2004), available at <http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472–6939/5/2> (last visited October 3, 2007).

See Bensimon Upshur , supra note 30.

See Coker R. , “Tuberculosis, Non-Compliance and Detention for the Public Health,” Journal of Medical Ethics 26, no. 3 (2000): 157–9, available at <http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/26/3/157> (last visited October 3, 2007); Coker R. , “Public Health, Civil Liberties, and Tuberculosis,” BMJ 318, no. 7196 (1999): 1434–5, available at <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1115825andLerner> (last visited October 3, 2007); Lerner B. H. , “Catching Patients: Tuberculosis and Detention in the 1990s,” Chest 115, no. 1 (1999): 236–41, available at <http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/115/1/236> (last visited October 3, 2007).

Id. ( Coker 2000 and 1999).

See Lerner , supra note 37.

See Verma Upshur Rea Benatar , supra note 31.

See Night S. S. , Public Health Emergencies and HIPAA: When Is the Disclosure of Individual Health Information Lawful? Health Law Policy Institute, available at <http://www.law.uh.edu/Healthlaw/perspectives/2007/(SN)SpeakerHIPAA.pdf> (last visited October 4, 2007), where the author does an analysis of whether HIPPA privacy rule was violated in the release of Speaker's name.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Fact Sheet: Legal Authorities for Isolation and Quarantine,” available at <http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/fact-sheetlegal.htm> (last visited October 3, 2007).

See Markel Gostin Fidler , supra note 2.