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Website Accessibility
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Technology and AI
Businesses Score a Few Recent Wins in Website Accessibility Lawsuits
By Minh Vu and John Egan Seyfarth Synopsis: Three businesses prevail in website accessibility lawsuits in New York and California. Defending website accessibility lawsuits can be an expensive and difficult…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
NY District Court Rules ADA Does Not Apply to Internet-Only Businesses
By Jeffrey Goldman, Tracey Diamond, Victoria Summerfield
Q: Does the ADA apply to internet-only businesses? A: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York recently ruled that the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) does…
Workforce Bulletin
It’s a New Day? EDNY District Court Deviates from Peers Holding That Newspaper’s Website Is Not a Place of Public Accommodation Under Title III of the ADA
By Shira M. Blank, Joshua A. Stein
Last week, in Winegard v. Newsday LLC, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued a decision that may finally tee up the issue of website…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
ADA Title III Federal Mid-Year Lawsuit Numbers at an All-Time High
By Minh Vu, Kristina Launey, Susan Ryan Seyfarth Synopsis: ADA Title III lawsuit filings in federal courts on pace for a record year. Regular readers will doubtless recall that 2020…
Product Liability & Mass Torts Blog
ADA Website Litigation: Eleventh Circuit Holds Website is Not Subject to Title III
By Brett F. Clements, Matthew B. Mock, Alec Kraus
Plaintiffs are filing an increasing number of lawsuits against companies alleging that their websites violate Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) because the sites are not accessible…
Accessibility Defense
Transunion v Ramirez – has the Supreme Court put an end to cheap standing in ADA litigation?
By Richard Hunt
Almost every claim brought under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act raises standing issues because, in almost every case, the lawsuit is the result of a plaintiff, usually…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Court finds Domino’s Pizza Violated the ADA by Having an Inaccessible Website and Orders WCAG Compliance
By Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: California federal trial court grants summary judgment for plaintiff, finding Domino’s violated the ADA by having a website that is inaccessible to the blind…
Consumer Finance Monitor
This week’s podcast: Websites as “places of public accommodation” under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): a deep dive into the legal and regulatory issues facing businesses
After reviewing a brief history of the ADA and the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) interpretation that Title III’s public accommodation accessibility requirements apply to websites, we look at DOJ’s…
Product Liability & Mass Torts Blog
ADA Website Litigation Continues to Proliferate in 2021
By Brett F. Clements, Matthew B. Mock
U.S. companies have been inundated with lawsuits in the past several years alleging that their websites do not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and various state laws,…
Data Privacy Dish
Website Accessibility: Issues Under the ADA, CCPA, and More
On Thursday, June 10 from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. MDT (2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EDT), Greenberg Traurig attorney Tyler Thompson will lead a discussion focusing on website accessibility requirements and…