The Blog of William D. Goren, J.D. LL.M.
As readers of this blog know, I don’t usually blog more than once a week. However, I had a moment and a real cool idea already in the can so to speak, so here goes.
At least once a month, I get a call from someone around the country talking about how the court system…
Today’s blog entry, deals with the question of what are the hot issues with respect to the ADA and the lodging industry. As I see it, there are six, but this blog entry will only focus on four of them. Two of those four are encapsulated in 28 C.F.R. §36.302. The four are indemnification…
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…
In a previous blog entry, which I keep on my greatest hits section of my blog, I discuss what you need to do with respect to auditing your educational institution for ADA compliance. In #14 of that blog entry, I mentioned that whatever services are being offered on the Internet, the institution needs to…
Previously, I have blogged that with respect to title II, the critical question is whether a person has meaningful access to the services, programs, activities of the public entity. This week’s case, Medina v. City of Cape Coral (an unpublished decision), , 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168680 (M.D. Fla. December 5, 2014), stands for the…
Back in 1997, I wrote an article for the Florida bar Journal discussing the relationship between the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act. I have had the good fortune to see that article cited numerous times in various law review articles. If I were to update that article today,…