ADA – serial litigation
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ADA website litigation – latest statistics and my opinion. . .
Seyfarth Shaw’s Title III ADA blog has published mid-year statistics for ADA website filings, which you can find at Seyfarth Shaw Blog. The headline is that filings are up, but there is more to it than that when you look at the rate of filings from 2017 to present. First, the chart doesn’t show filings… Continue reading
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ADA 30 Days to Comply Act – an additional thought.
I say “an additional thought” because while I was thinking about what to say concerning the newly introduced ADA 30 Days to Comply Act William Goren wrote his own analysis of the law, which you can read here – Goren Blog. Briefly, the law imposes a 30 day notice requirement as a prerequisite to filing… 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Update – well, in the fast moving world of the internet it looks like this blog is out of date because the California bill it discusses is unlikely to pass.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