FHA Defense
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We’ve got a lot to say – upcoming ADA and FHA webinars
I’ll be presenting three new webinars in early 2025, starting with “Access Denied: Avoiding & Defending the Expanding Field of ADA Claims” for MyLawCLE on January 17, 2025. My co-presenter will be my colleague William Goren, whose blog http://www.understandingtheada.com is well worth reading. On February 10, 2025 I’ll be presenting “Understanding Accessibility Requirements under the 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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More lessons from HUD and DOJ about the ADA and FHA
Press releases from HUD and DOJ in the last week or so contain plenty of lessons for the owners of businesses subject to the ADA and FHA. I can’t say whether these new claims by the government will pan out, but the nature of the claims made provides some insight in how to get into 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
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“Polly want a cracker?” Lessons from DOJ press releases.
The Department of Justice issues a press release every time it enters into a settlement agreement of some kind. The foundations of accessibility law are the statutes and the cases applying them, but there are a lot of practical lessons to be learned from the settlements obtained by the DOJ, so it is worth looking Continue reading
