Next week is the week before my daughter’s bat mitzvah. Accordingly, I think I’m going to take that week off. This week’s blog entry comes to me courtesy of my friend Stephen Meyer, a certified Texas accessibility specialist (a certified person in Texas that assesses facilities for compliance with accessibility guidelines and regulations). The case,
June 2017
Website Accessibility Case Goes to Verdict and it is Not in Favor of Defendant
Many blog sites, such as this one which appears in my blogroll, are reporting on a website accessibility case that went to verdict and found in favor of the plaintiff. The case is Gill v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90204 (S.D. Fla. June 13, 2017). As is usual, the case is…
Just What is a Private Club?
By William Goren on
In looking back over my blog entries, all 274 of them to date, I have never really talked about the private club defense. I did allude to it here when I was talking about fraternities. Today’s case, Lobel v. Woodland Golf Club of Auburndale , squarely addresses that issue. As is usual, the blog entry…
Why Argue ADA at all in Gender Dysphoria Cases, When Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause are Available?
By William Goren on
The case of the week asks the question why a person with gender dysphoria, would bother going with the ADA if he or she could go with title IX of the Civil Rights Act or the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment instead. Recently, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held here that…