Businesses in California have for years struggled to comply with both California’s Title 24 accessibility standards for buildings and the federal standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) because those standards differed in many respects. The differences became even more pronounced after the Department of Justice adopted the 2010 ADA Standards for accessible facilities. Inconsistencies with
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Denying Serial ADA Plaintiffs Access To Your Pocketbooks: The Case For Fighting: A Success Story
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By Jon Meer & Myra Villamor
It is a common practice among a growing group of serial plaintiffs to slap businesses with frivolous “accessibility discrimination” lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and similar state laws such as the California Disabled Persons and Unruh Acts. In these cases, a person with a disability claims that he was “discriminated against…