http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/health/devious-defecator-case-tests-genetics-law.html
Seven years ago, Congress prohibited employers and insurers from discriminating
against people with genes that increase their risks for costly
diseases, but the case that experts believe is the first to go to trial
under the law involves something completely different: an effort by an
employer to detect employee wrongdoing with genetic sleuthing.Amy
Totenberg, the United States district judge in Atlanta who is hearing
the case, called it the mystery of the devious defecator.Frustrated
supervisors at a warehouse outside Atlanta were trying to figure out
who was leaving piles of feces around the facility. They pulled aside
two laborers whom they suspected. The men, fearing for their jobs,
agreed to have the inside of their cheeks swabbed for a genetic analysis
that would compare their DNA with that of the feces. Jack Lowe, a
forklift operator, said word quickly spread and they became the objects
of humiliating jokes.“They were laughing at us,” he said.
The two men were cleared — their DNA was not a match.
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