ADA Reform
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Quick Hits – ADA and FHA news of note
Last week’s Quick Hits blog got a good response, so we are repeating it this week. Both of this week’s cases concern abusive serial litigation and the efforts of courts and state governments to put an end to it. Ford v. Jalisco Market, LLC, 2:16-CV-619-CW-BCW, 2017 WL 4621612, at *15 (D. Utah Oct. 13, 2017) is in Continue reading
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ADA reform: neither complaints nor pre-suit notice will solve the problem.
Sixty Minutes and Forbes have now weighed in on the serial litigation crisis that threatens small businesses sued for often innocent or trivial ADA violations. Congress is gearing up once again to require pre-suit notice, a change demanded by businesses and opposed by disability rights groups. Meanwhile, the pace of ADA filings has only increased, with Continue reading
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ADA reform legislation moves forward
On July 7 H.R. 3765, the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2015, passed out of the House Judiciary Committee. H.R. 3765 is one of several pending ADA reform bills targeting “drive-by” or serial litigants. They share a common approach, requiring that plaintiffs give notice before filing suit so the problem can be fixed. They also Continue reading
