In the space of three days in early December four different courts took very different approaches to standing allegations by serial ADA litigants. A comparison shows there is no certainty in how the law will be applied in ADA cases
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Quick Hits, Happy Holidays edition – ADA website litigation.
I’ve been busy in the last few months putting what I learn from reading new decisions about the ADA and FHA to use for my clients; hence this delayed blog. A number of interesting decisions concerning ADA website litigation came
ADA website litigation 2022
I’ll presenting an updated version of my past webinars on ADA website accessibility litigation for University of Texas Law School CLE. Learn the theory and sometimes ugly reality of how and why website owners are sued and how you can
Quick Hits – fall color edition.
Fall mushrooms are beautiful, but also potentially poisonous, which is a real stretch for an analogy to the disability protection provisions of the ADA and FHA. Here’s a roundup of the latest decisions.
Website accessibility – let’s review
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What Williams v Kincaid tells us about interpreting the ADA
Williams v Kincaid, 2022 WL 3364824 (4th Cir. August 16, 2022) is not the first case to consider gender dysphoria as a disability, and marks the second time the Fourth Circuit has considered the difference between gender identity and gender dysphoria.¹ However, as
FHA and ADA Quick Hits – afternoon showers edition
August is (in Texas at least) the month of afternoon thunderstorms. It’s a good metaphor for running a business subject to the ADA or FHA. Everything’s sunny and warm one minute then suddenly the wind is blowing and you are
A victory on tester standing – lawsuit by Rafael Segovia dismissed.
I’m not above patting myself on the back, and today Judge Sam Lindsay granted a Motion to Dismiss I filed for the defendant in Segovia v. Admiral Realty, Inc., Case No. 3:21-cv-2478 (N.D. Texas August 4, 2022). Judge Lindsay found, correctly, that
What’s bugging HUD – the latest HUD actions based on disability
HUD’s press releases are interesting reading, not because they help you understand the law, but because they help you understand what HUD thinks the law is, and because they are often object lessons in mistakes no housing provider should make.
ADA regulations and the reality of website accessibility
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It has long seemed that the best way to both create accessibility for websites and to tame the industrial ADA litigation monster is to have a technical regulatory standard. Most recently a group of U.S. Senators has
The Meta Fair Housing Settlement: watch out for unintended consequences . . .
The Jurassic Park series of movies are all about unintended consequences. You can say the same thing about the Facebook advertising tools that were the subject of lawsuits against Meta. On June 21 the Department of Justice announced a settlement