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Website Accessibility
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Privacy and Cybersecurity
Forum Shopping For a Website Lawsuit Over the Holidays? Look No Further than the SDNY.
By Julia N. Sarnoff and John W. Egan Seyfarth Synopsis: A massive surge in website accessibility lawsuits filed in the Southern District of New York suggests some holiday forum shopping…
Cannabis Law Update
CBD and Hemp Legal and Regulatory Roundup – December 7, 2021
By Kelley Drye
Welcome to our weekly roundup of CBD and hemp-related legal and regulatory news: CBD CBD products company sued for failing to provide accessible website Rasheta Bunting filed the lawsuit on…
Accessibility Defense
Understanding ADA Website Accessibility Litigation
By Richard Hunt
My new paper “Understanding Website Accessibility Litigation” is available now for download. This paper is for businesses who want to understand this highly publicized form of litigation without jargon and…
Canna Law Blog
Hemp Companies Face Latest Round of ADA Complaints
By Jihee Ahn
Last year, I wrote that business owners need to be aware of a growing trend of federal class action lawsuits claiming business websites and point-of-sale terminals violate Title III of…
Taft Privacy & Data Security Insights
ADA Website Accessibility and Liability: Why Businesses Need to Develop a Strategy… Now.
By Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
In addition to ongoing privacy and security related issues, one of the hot spots for litigation has been the accessibility of websites. In this post, we will lay out the…
Consumer products law blog
Plaintiffs must actually intend to use services for website accessibility claims
By Jeff Margulies (US), Eva Yang (US)
Businesses scored a win in a recent California Court of Appeal decision affirming a defense jury verdict in a website accessibility lawsuit. In Cheryl Thurston v. Omni Hotels Management Corp.,…
Accessibility Defense
ADA website demands – same old wine in the same old bottle again. . .
By Richard Hunt
I’m re-cycling a picture from April because there’s another lawyer recycling a money-making strategy that’s been in use for quite a while. I’ve been hired in the last week by…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Is the Tide Turning on Website Accessibility Claims? California Court of Appeal Upholds a ‘Bona Fide Intent’ Requirement
The Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, recently handed a potentially significant website accessibility win to the business community under the Unruh Civil Rights Act…
Employment Law Lookout
Biden Department of Justice Steps up ADA Title III Enforcement
By Minh N. Vu
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Biden DOJ Civil Rights Division has been much more active than its predecessor in enforcing Title III of the ADA and supporting plaintiffs in pending litigation. As we…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Biden Department of Justice Steps up ADA Title III Enforcement
By Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: The Biden DOJ Civil Rights Division has been much more active than its predecessor in enforcing Title III of the ADA and supporting plaintiffs…