Rosa and Eliana Martínez

[1] Eliana died of complications from AIDS seven months after winning the right to attend a special education program without being physically isolated from other students.

[3][6] Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich ruled on August 8, 1988, that Eliana could attend the school if isolated by transparent partitions from other students until she was toilet trained and learned to stop sucking her fingers.

[10] In December 1988, the Court of Appeals returned the case to Judge Kovachevich, upholding Eliana's right to be placed in the least restrictive environment unless evidence proved that she posed a significant risk to other children.

In March 1991, Rosa Martínez and husband Garth Button became legal guardians for two sisters born with AIDS whose mother had recently died.

[16][17] Following an investigation of allegations that Martínez withheld AIDS treatment from the girls,[18] the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services removed them from the Martínez-Button household.