ADA arbitration
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Quick Hits – assembly line edition.
With more than 40 new decisions in the last two weeks it hasn’t been easy getting this blog out. I’m not the only lawyer with too much to do too fast, as the following cases demonstrate. The problem with industrial litigation In a classic episode of “I Love Lucy” she and her friend Ethel get Continue reading
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Uber, arbitration and the ADA – the 9th Circuit weighs in.
The August 24 decision in Naminsnak et al v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Case No. 18-15860 (9th Cir. August 24, 2020) is interesting for many reasons, so I’m glad my fellow blogger Bill Goren forwarded the opinion.¹ The short version is that Uber was sued because it did not make accessible cars available in New Orleans and Continue reading
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ADA and FHA Quick Hits – Great Caesar’s Ghost edition.
“Beware the Ides of March” was what the prophet warned Caesar according to Shakespeare. It didn’t go well for him, but the latest batch of ADA and FHA decisions are something of a mixed bag. Before getting to that news though I want to make sure everyone who wants one has a copy of my Continue reading
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ADA and FHA Quick Hits – Day that will live in infamy edition
Before delving into the fascinating details of ADA and FHA legal developments it doesn’t hurt to remember that in the larger scheme of things the day-to-day problems caused by flaws in the ADA and FHA are not as earth shattering as we like to imagine. Cities may be responsible for the carelessness of the public Continue reading
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You can’t agree to what you can’t read – the perils of clickwrap when the ADA is involved.
This week’s decision in Nat’l Fed’n of the Blind v. Container Store, Inc., 2016 WL 4027711 (D. Mass. July 27, 2016) is a call to action for every business that uses a click to accept type license or other agreements. Such agreements may not be enforceable in an ADA context unless special care is taken. The case Continue reading
