The Blog of William D. Goren, J.D. LL.M.
I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.
This week’s blog entry is a case out of the Second Appellate District of the Court of Appeal of the State of California. It is a case involving whether attorney fees can be imposed upon plaintiff’s counsel as a sanction when the lawsuit is frivolous. The…
I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend. Today’s blog entry goes to the dogs literally. The blog entry talks about two different cases involving service animals and how the court system deals with them. My thanks to Prof. Leonard Sandler, clinical law professor at the University of Iowa Law School for sending along the…
Yesterday was 9/11 and certainly thinking of everyone. Also, I appreciate everyone bearing with me on my two week hiatus while my wife and I were abroad. We came back Friday and back to the grind now.
Today’s case is an unpublished decision. Lee v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc., from the Ninth Circuit decided August…
Today’s blog entry is a case from the Eastern District of New York, Martinez v. Gutsy LLC, here, which makes the case for why standalone websites can be a place of public accommodation providing that site is functioning for one of the purposes laid out in 42 U.S.C. §12181(7).
Once again, a person…
Before getting started on our blog entry for the week, a couple of housekeeping matters are in order. First, my daughter is off to college a week from Friday. Things are very exciting and terrifying here at the same time. Accordingly, next week is going to be crazy and the week after that even more…
Earlier today, I counted the number of cases I had in my pipeline. It came to two dozen. Ultimately, I chose the case of Panarra v. HTC Corporation et. al., here. It is a cutting edge case exploring whether the programming offered in virtual reality headsets needs to be accessible to the Deaf, deaf,…
My daughter completed her classroom component for high school this week and now is just waiting to graduate, so my schedule has been a bit all over the place. Hence, I am getting this blog entry up later in the week than I usually do.
This week’s blog entry is already making the rounds…
I had already gone through two drafts of putting this blog entry together when I saw that the United States Supreme Court came down with it decision in Cummings (we discussed the oral argument here). One thing Cummings shows me is that predicting the Supreme Court result from the oral argument is a fools…
Today’s blog entry returns us back to the world of legal malpractice. You simply do not see a lot of legal malpractice with respect to ADA matters, and I have always wondered why. We have discussed legal malpractice with respect to ADA matters before, such as here. The case of the day is Suburban…