A jury has ruled that Georgia-based Atlas Logistics must pay two employees a combined $2.2 million for forcing them to submit to a cheek swab to determine if their DNA was a match to feces being left throughout the warehouse facility, Ars Technica reports. Atlas Logistics claimed the “genetic information” involved wasn’t covered by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, arguing the act excludes analysis of DNA, RNA chromosomes and other matter if they don’t reveal an individual’s propensity for disease. But U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg “refused to toss the case,” the report states, ruling the “plain meaning of the statute’s text” was satisfactory for the case to go forward.
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