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Website Accessibility
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Privacy and Cybersecurity
Ninth Circuit Allows the Robles v. Domino’s Website and Mobile App Accessibility Lawsuit to Move Forward
By Kristina M. Launey, Minh N. Vu
Seyfarth Synopsis: Ninth Circuit overturns district court’s dismissal of website accessibility lawsuit on due process and primary jurisdiction grounds, remands case to proceed with discovery. On January 15, 2019, the Ninth…
Workforce Bulletin
Federal Appellate Courts Ring In the New Year by Taking Up Website and Mobile Application Accessibility
By Shira M. Blank, Joshua A. Stein
As expected given the extreme volume of website accessibility lawsuits filed over the last few years, in the first few weeks of the new year, United States’ Circuit courts have…
Accessibility Defense
ADA and the Internet – 9th Circuit overrules Robles v Dominos
By Richard Hunt
This afternoon the Ninth Circuit overruled the district court decision in Robles v. Domino’s Pizza LLC. Robles has always been an outlier. It is one of only a couple of cases…
Accessibility Defense
Beyoncé’s website was sued – but that’s not the news
By Richard Hunt
A lawsuit claiming that Beyoncé’s website is not accessible to the blind has gotten lots of coverage*, but the real news of importance to business is that the plaintiff –…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
The Muddy Waters of ADA Website Compliance May Become Less Murky in 2019
By Jason P. Brown, Robert T. Quackenboss
The Americans with Disabilities Act has been the source of a tremendous amount of litigation since President George H.W. Bush signed it into law in 1990. Over the past few…
Accessibility Defense
Fourth Circuit decision in ADA web access case is a victory for all defendants.
By Richard Hunt
In Griffin v. Dept. of Lab. Fed. Credit Union, 18-1312, 2019 WL 80704 (4th Cir. Jan. 3, 2019), decided earlier today, the Fourth Circuit gave the defendant credit union a victory…
Accessibility Defense
ADA and FHA Quick Hits – Happy New Year edition
By Richard Hunt
There is only one prediction that can be made with complete certainty about ADA and FHA litigation in 2019: Lawyers will continue to make money exploiting these laws for profit…
Accessibility Defense
ADA Title III year in review – it’s a bull market in website accessibility lawsuits.
By Richard Hunt
The financial markets are bouncing around like ping pong balls, but there is one financial indicator that is only going up. For website accessibility litigation we have a bull market…
Employment Law
ADA Case Law and Statutory Updates
Lawsuits under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, based upon a company’s alleged failure to make its website accessible to the visually impaired or legally blind…
Technology and AI
Court of Appeals Says Blind Plaintiff is Not Bound By a Written Agreement to Arbitrate That He Could Not Read
By: Kevin A. Fritz and Minh Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit says that an agreement to arbitrate presented visually to blind plaintiffs on a…