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Website Accessibility
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Eleventh Circuit Reverses Website Accessibility Decision (and Congress Considers Action)
By Geoffrey W. Castello, Gonzalo E. Mon
In recent years, plaintiffs’ attorneys have found that filing website accessibility cases can be a lucrative business model. By doing a quick scan of a website and then copying and…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
11th Circuit Says Websites Need Not Be Accessible
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits public places of accommodation from erecting barriers to persons with disabilities. This portion of the ADA is known as Title III. This is the…
Understanding the ADA
To Boldly Go Where No One Has Before: The 11th Circuit’s Opinion in Gil v. Winn-Dixie
Before getting started on the blog entry of the week, I want to congratulate the Stanford Cardinal and the Baylor Bears for winning the women’s and men’s NCAA Division…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Federal Disability Discrimination Law Does Not Require Websites Be Accessible, Appeals Court Holds
By Mendy Halberstam, Joseph J. Lynett, Rebecca M. McCloskey
A website is not a “place of public accommodation” and an inaccessible website is not necessarily equal to the denial of goods or services, a federal appeals court has held…
Employment Law Spotlight
Eleventh Circuit Holds Websites Are Not Places of Public Accommodation and Rejects Commonly Relied-Upon Nexus Standard
By Erin Sales, Joyce Ackerbaum Cox
In a win for businesses, on April 7, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held in Juan Carlos Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., that websites are…
Litigators at Work
Federal Disability Discrimination Law Does Not Require Websites Be Accessible, Appeals Court Holds
By Mendy Halberstam, Joseph J. Lynett, Rebecca M. McCloskey
A website is not a “place of public accommodation” and an inaccessible website is not necessarily equal to the denial of goods or services, a federal appeals court has held…
Employment Class and Collective Action Update
ADA Does Not Require Websites Be Accessible, Appeals Court Holds
A website is not a “place of public accommodation” within the meaning of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a federal appeals court has held in a…
Accessibility Defense
Because of Winn-Dixie: the Eleventh Circuit takes a conservative stand on website accessibility.
By Richard Hunt
On April 7 the Eleventh Circuit issued what is likely to be among the most important ADA decisions in the last twenty years. (6) In Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., 2021…
Consumer Protection Review
Eleventh Circuit Rules that Websites Are Not Public Accommodations Under the ADA
On April 7, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision in a closely watched web accessibility case, holding that websites do not constitute places…
Workforce Bulletin
The Eleventh Circuit Finally Breaks Its Silence on Website Accessibility – but Was Its Decision Worth the Wait?
By Joshua A. Stein, Shira M. Blank
After keeping us waiting with baited breath for several years, the Eleventh Circuit finally broke its silence – issuing its long-anticipated ruling in Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, holding that websites…