Plaintiff Robles Files His Opposition To Domino’s Petition For Certiorari

By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on August 14, 2019

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By Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: The Supreme Court will decide whether to hear its first website accessibility case now that briefing on Domino’s Petition for Certiorari is complete. Earlier today, Plaintiff Guillermo Robles filed his opposition to Domino’s request to the U.S. Supreme Court for review of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision to let Robles’s lawsuit against Domino’s proceed to discovery. Robles, who is blind, sued Domino’s alleging that its website and…

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FEDERAL ADA TITLE III LAWSUIT NUMBERS CONTINUE TO CLIMB IN 2019

By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on July 26, 2019

By Minh Vu, Kristina Launey, and Susan Ryan Seyfarth Synopsis: Data from the first six months of 2019 shows a 12% increase over 2018. The task of counting the number of ADA Title III lawsuits filed in federal courts grows with the ever-increasing numbers of lawsuits. For the period from January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2019, our research team counted 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuits filed in federal court, versus 4,965 filed…

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FOURTH CIRCUIT SAYS INABILITY TO GET INFORMATION FROM WEBSITE, WITHOUT MORE, IS NOT ENOUGH TO ESTABLISH STANDING TO SUE

By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on July 3, 2019

By Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: Courts in the Fourth Circuit are taking a hard look at a plaintiffs’ standing in website accessibility cases. In a small but potentially important victory for defendants facing website accessibility lawsuits, the Fourth Circuit has issued two decisions upholding dismissal of lawsuits for lack of standing with a well-reasoned analysis that can be applied to the defense of other lawsuits. The blind plaintiff in Griffin v. Dept. of Labor …

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Domino’s Files Petition for US Supreme Court Review of Unfavorable Website Access Decision

By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on June 13, 2019

By Minh N. Vu and Kristina M. Launey Domino’s filed its petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court today, June 13, 2019, asking the Court to review and overturn the Ninth Circuit’s decision which allowed a website accessibility lawsuit to proceed against Domino’s. Domino’s styled the question presented as “Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy…

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SDNY DISMISSES WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY LAWSUIT BASED ON MOOTNESS AND LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION

By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on June 11, 2019

By: Kristina M. Launey and Samuel Sverdlov Seyfarth Synopsis: A SDNY judge dismissed a website accessibility lawsuit finding that the company mooted the allegations in the complaint by remediating the accessibility barriers and that the Court lacked personal jurisdiction since the company does not transact business in New York. New York federal courts are a hotbed for ADA Title III litigation — of the over 10,000 ADA Title III lawsuits filed in 2018, at…

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Plaintiff Robles Files His Opposition To Domino’s Petition For Certiorari

FEDERAL ADA TITLE III LAWSUIT NUMBERS CONTINUE TO CLIMB IN 2019

FOURTH CIRCUIT SAYS INABILITY TO GET INFORMATION FROM WEBSITE, WITHOUT MORE, IS NOT ENOUGH TO ESTABLISH STANDING TO SUE

Domino’s Files Petition for US Supreme Court Review of Unfavorable Website Access Decision

SDNY DISMISSES WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY LAWSUIT BASED ON MOOTNESS AND LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION

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