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
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Defenses to Serial Website Litigation
My colleague, Richard Hunt, recently blogged on the issue of website accessibility here and here. I want to focus and provide another perspective on his blog entry discussing Robles v. Dominos Pizza LLC 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53133 (C.D. Cal. March 20, 2017), and Gomez v. Bang and Olufsen America, Inc., 2017 U.S.…
This is Outrageous! April Fools:-)
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This is just outrageous!* People shouldn’t say these things, such as:**
- “I’m not going to change anything with respect to IEP’s. After all, appropriate progress means anything you want it to mean.”
- “Since I don’t want your money, I can do what I want.”
- “A cool website is more important than an accessible website.
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Understanding The ADA 2016 Top 10 Blog Entries +2
It is time for the top 10 of 2016. For the most part, the greatest hits stayed the same during the course of the whole year. I believe I updated the greatest hits at the end of the first quarter of this year and then did not do so after that. There were only two…
Let’s go to the movies
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Before moving onto the blog of the week, a housekeeping matter is in order. For the third year in a row, Understanding the ADA has been selected as one of the top 100 legal blogs by the American Bar Association. No way could I have done that without…
Fending off the Serial Plaintiff: A Preventive Law Approach in Two Steps
Over the last couple of months, I have received this phone call close to once a week. So, I thought I should write a preventive law approach to dealing with this. The situation goes like this: potential client owns a small business/restaurant/shopping mall and is worried about fending off a serial plaintiff either presently or…
A Donald Trump Administration and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Before moving on to the post of the week, you will notice that the blog has a new look and feel. I upgraded the blog so that it is better able to be used on mobile devices and more importantly the upgrade increases its ability to be accessible. Besides the look, you will see that…
ADA and Professionalism Issues
Hope everybody had a great Labor Day weekend. Today’s blog entry discusses the professional obligations associated with a person with a disability in litigation. I can’t tell you how often I get a call from a person, generally a couple of times a week, talking about how the court system is not accommodating their disability.…
Just What Is a Sales Establishment Anyway per Title III of the ADA?
In a recent blog entry, I discussed a 10th Circuit opinion that talked about just what is a service establishment. This blog entry talks about a similar issue, which is just what is a sales establishment? The case of the day essentially adopts the dissenting view of Judge Holmes in Levorsen, the case referenced…
EEOC Guidance on Employer-Provided Leave and the ADA
First off, I want to thank everyone who voted for me for the 2016 ABA blog 100. It has been two years in a row for Understanding the ADA, and I am keeping my fingers crossed for a third. Thanks again everyone!
Turning to the topic of the week, about a week or so ago…