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Website Accessibility
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Law and the Workplace
California District Court Holds Redbox Not Required to Offer Captioning On Its Website, Affirming Ninth Circuit Position that Entities that Purely Exist in Cyber-Space Are Not Places of Public Accommodation Under the ADA
By Allan Weitzman, Joshua Stein
Yet another district court in the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the position that websites with no nexus to traditional brick and mortar places of public accommodation are not in and…
Law and the Workplace
The Wait Continues for the Release of the DOJ Website Accessibility Regulations
By Allan Weitzman, Joshua Stein
For those eagerly anticipating word from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on the proposed regulations governing website accessibility requirements and technical standards for the websites of both places of…
Technology and AI
Still Waiting For Web Regs: Justice Department Pushes Back Issuance Date For Accessible Website Proposed Regulations (Again)
By Minh N. Vu The federal government recently released an Unified Agenda announcing that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has delayed to March 2015 the issuance of proposed regulations setting…
Technology and AI
Justice Department Targets Websites, Mobile Apps, and POS Devices
By Minh Vu Only four months into 2014, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already made clear that it is pursuing an aggressive enforcement agenda when it comes to the…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
DOJ Strikes Landmark Consent Decree in Web, Mobile Access Case
By Joseph J. Lynett, Jackson Lewis P.C.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that it has entered into a landmark consent decree resolving its first lawsuit brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act centered on the…
Technology and AI
New EU Web Accessibility Rules In the Works
By Kevin Fritz Members of the European Parliament voted last week to strengthen a proposed European Directive on Accessibility of Public Sector Bodies' Websites. The beefed up version of the…
Law and the Workplace
DOJ and National Federation of the Blind Enter Into Consent Decree with H&R Block to Require Website and Mobile Application Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities
By Allan Weitzman, Joshua Stein
On March 6, 2014, the National Federation of the Blind and the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”), as a plaintiff-intervenor, entered into a consent decree with HRB Digital LLC…
Business and Commercial
Ninth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Retail Store Defendants
By Andrew C. Crane On January 28, 2014, in Martinez v. Columbia Sportswear USA Corp., the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for our…
Minnesota Employer
Are Websites Operated By Public Accommodations Subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Courts are currently split about the extent to which private websites are subject to the accessibility requirements of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the U.S.…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Federal Website Accessibility Requirements For Places Of Public Accommodation Expected In The Next Six Months
More than three years after first announcing that it was considering issuing regulations applying the Americans with Disabilities Act to websites, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) appears on the…