Accessibility Litigation Trends
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Beer and website accessibility
I had the pleasure to join Chris Hinds and Amber Hinds of equalizedigital.com on their Accessibility Craft podcast. It was fun and, I hope, there was some good information to share about the law. You can find it here. Continue reading
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ADA and FHA Enforcement News
Letting someone else do your work for you is a very efficient way to write a blog, but I won’t use any form of AI because it seems to be a lot more A than I. Instead this time I’m pointing you to the work of others, with a few conclusions of my own. Let’s… Continue reading
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If at first you don’t succeed. . . alternative milk litigation again.
On November 5, 2024 Judge Jon S. Tigar dismissed the claims in Munoz v Peet’s Coffee, Inc., Case No. 24-cv-01764 in the Northern District of California. I’ve blogged about these cases recently¹ so I won’t go into detail. As might be expected, the plaintiff lost. The reasons were simple. The plaintiff’s first claim was the addition… Continue reading
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Accessibility Law for Real Estate Lawyers
On November 5, 2024 beginning at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time I’ll be presenting a 90 minute webinar on Accessibility Law for Real Estate Lawyers to the ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law. I’ll survey the accessibility laws that most often apply to real estate buyers, sellers, developers, owners, operators, landlords, tenants and… Continue reading
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Is Asthma a disability under the ADA? Good question.
Employers and others covered by the ADA, FHA and other laws prohibiting disability discrimination often want to know whether this or that medical condition is a disability. A pair of decisions from the Sixth Circuit, both decided in the last month, explain why there may not be an unequivocal answer. Continue reading