hand, a federal district court recently struck down the requirement for mandatory AIDS testing of state employees of a residential agency providing services for the mentally retarded. Although the agency justified the regulation as an administrative function designed to promote a safe environment for both the employees and the patients, the court found that the employees' privacy interest in their blood outweighed the state's interest. The court specifically said that since there is no evidence that AIDS can be transmitted either through casual contact or via biting and scratching, testing as a means of preventing the spread of AIDS in this situation was not a reasonable search.
Under the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states cannot make or enforce any law which denies equal protection of the laws to any person. In order to determine if a law violates the Equal Protection clause, a court must ascertain the governmental objective. If the objective comes under social welfare, then
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