ADA – Hotels
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Quick Hits – Halloween Candy edition.
Halloween is a month away, but the candy is on the shelves at our local grocery stores and the courts are already delivering tricks and treats for those of us concerned with accessibility lawsuits. The complexities of accessibility in federal programs. Ramos v. Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity, 2019 WL 4316575 (D.N.J. Sept. 12, 2019)… Continue reading
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From Sea to Shining Sea – how different courts deal with serial ADA lawsuits.
Today’s blog concerns a couple of cases reported to me by colleagues in California and New York. They give a snapshot of how courts at both ends of the country are thinking about ADA lawsuits. The snapshot at left is pretty much in the middle, near Telluride Colorado. Welcome to the Hotel California I was… Continue reading
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Quick Hits – Serial filer edition
All but two of today’s cases are from serial filers, and 7 of 17 are from a single serial filer, Scott Johnson. The fact that serial filers dominate the world of ADA litigation is hardly news; in fact, it would news if an ordinary disabled individual who suffered a real ADA injury filed suit. It… Continue reading
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Quick Hits – Memorial Day edition
This Memorial Day we are once again firing up the grill with hundred dollar bills to celebrate how the ADA its current form encourages litigation that makes lawyers rich without any correspondening improvement in meaningful access for the disabled. The first case presents the unappetizing picture of a single claimed lack of access generating parallel… Continue reading
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Quick Hits – St. Patrick’s Day Edition
I’m a day late with the St. Patrick’s Day Edition of Quick Hits but that’s no reason not to raise a toast to the saint who, as my great-grandfather William Mullin said, drove all the snakes out of Ireland except the politicians. Counter widths and the ADA Johnson v. Starbucks Corp., 2019 WL 699136 (E.D.… Continue reading
