I am belatedly blogging about two recent decisions that have already been discussed elsewhere.¹ The legal issues presented are interesting,² but for businesses concerned with service animals the practical lessons are, I think, more important.
In Mission Working Dogs a group…

I had the pleasure to join Chris Hinds and Amber Hinds of equalizedigital.com on their Accessibility Craft podcast. It was fun and, I hope, there was some good information to share about the law. You can find it here.

Not long after Trump was elected in 2016 the Department of Justice withdrew a number of older guidances intended to help businesses deal with ADA issues. For the most part the withdrawn guidances were out of date and their withdrawal…

Letting someone else do your work for you is a very efficient way to write a blog, but I won’t use any form of AI because it seems to be a lot more A than I. Instead this time I’m…

Some time ago I blogged on a case in which a lease broker was sued for conveying to a prospective tenant the owner’s discriminatory refusal to rent.¹ Today I’m taking another look at the shooting the messenger problem, this time…

Federal district courts in New York do not agree on whether the ADA covers internet only businesses and, to a lesser degree, on the extent to which website tester plaintiffs have standing. In response professional plaintiffs and their lawyers have…

In 2022 the 9th Circuit made it clear that a federal district court could decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over an Unruh Act claim . Vo v. Choi, 49 F.4th 1167 (9th Cir. 2022). Vo v Choi has been cited 642…