Accessibility Litigation Trends
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Disability Rights under the Trump Administration.
Coming on the heels of my presentation of this title (available at Trump and Disability Rights) HUD and Senator Elizabeth Warren have both made significant announcements about fair housing enforcement. On September 17 HUD announced that it was withdrawing a number of guidance documents, including FHEO 2013-01 and 2020-01 and concerning assistance animals. These guidances Continue reading
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FHA tester standing – the beginning of the beginning of the end?
Even after the Supreme Court’s decision in Transunion¹ and the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Laufer v Mann Hospitality,² challenging the standing of a Fair Housing Act tester in Texas has been a hit or miss proposition depending very much on which District Judge decided the case. It has been quite possible to file almost identical motions to Continue reading
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Just a few quick notes on ADA website lawsuits.
I noted this headline in my Google news feed this afternoon: “Attorney involved in dozens of ‘sue-and-settle’ lawsuits around KC may have web accessibility issues on his own sites.” The story was pretty much as expected. Attorney Kevin Puckett files 90 lawsuits for a single plaintiff who claims to be disabled. The attorney’s own website Continue reading
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There was an old woman who swallowed a spider – reforming California’s Unruh Act
Update – well, in the fast moving world of the internet it looks like this blog is out of date because the California bill it discusses is unlikely to pass. Nonetheless, the princinciple still applies – it’s easy to legislate and hard to fix the unintended consequences. In the children’s nonsense song written by Burl Continue reading
