Seyfarth Synopsis: Public entities and private businesses have been waiting for years – since 2010 – for the Department of Justice to issue regulations setting a standard for website accessibility. The DOJ has announced that it is stepping backward rather than moving forward in that process, withdrawing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Title II regulations applicable to public entities,
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Website Accessibility Lawsuits By the Numbers
Website accessibility is an evolving and complicated topic, about which we’ve written many times. Thanks to delayed regulations and the Department of Justice’s changing positions on the issue, businesses have been caught off guard and plaintiffs’ attorneys are capitalizing on the uncertainty. We have seen a surge of demand letters and lawsuits against public accommodations alleging inaccessible websites. Like
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ADA Title III Lawsuits Continue to Rise: 8% Increase in 2015
Our research department has crunched the numbers from the federal court docket and the verdict is that the ADA Title III plaintiff’s bar and their clients are still busy filing lawsuits. Here are the findings:
- In 2015, 4,789 ADA Title III lawsuits were filed in federal court, as compared to 4,436 in 2014. That 8% increase is modest compared to
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U.S. General Services Administration Settles Suit Alleging Inaccessibility of Its Website for Contractors
Oh, the irony. Our federal government is filing lawsuits against private businesses and universities for having allegedly inaccessible websites and mobile apps when its own agencies have inaccessible websites. In April 2014, we reported that the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and three blind federal contractors sued the General Services Administration , alleging GSA’s own website, SAM.gov, is inaccessible
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ADA Title III Lawsuit Numbers Hold Steady for First Half of 2015
We’ve done the review and crunched the numbers: It appears that the surge of ADA Title III lawsuits we saw from 2013 to 2014 is holding strong, though possibly leveling off.
You may recall that there was a 60% increase in the number of ADA Title III lawsuits between 2013 and 2014 (2479 vs. 4436). In the first six months
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ADA Reform Legislation Proponents Cite Seyfarth’s Lawsuit Data
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ianne Wilson of Chain Store Age Media reported today that the “ADA Education and Reform Act of 2015”, H.R. 3765, introduced yesterday, October 20, 2015, by Representatives Ted Poe (R-TX), Doug Collins (R-GA) and David Jolly (R-FL), seeks to address ADA “drive-by” lawsuits. This is a topic about which we’ve reported about numerous times, such as here.
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Shopping Centers Today Publication Features Seyfarth's ADA Title III Lawsuit Data and Insight From Team Leader Minh Vu
Our ADA Title III Team lawsuit data has been cited in another publication, Shopping Centers Today. The article, published yesterday, “Landlords grapple with more ADA lawsuits“, also featured discussion by our ADA Title III Team leader, Minh Vu, of the possibility and need for legislative or regulatory reform to offer business relief from the increasing numbers of Title
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