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David Sudeck and Marty Orlick’s article, “Hotel & Timeshare Lawyer: Does the timeshare exit strategy or repositioning your property create ADA problems?”, appeared in ehotelier.com with an introduction by Jim Butler. This article originally appeared on JMBM’s Hotel Law Blog: Hotel & Timeshare Lawyer: Does the timeshare exit strategy or repositioning your property create ADA […]
WHAT IS THE ADA? The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is Civil Rights legislation passed by Congress in 1990 that is intended to prohibit discrimination based on disability. Title III of the ADA addresses barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from full and equal access to places of "public accommodation" and mandates the […]
Marty Orlick’s article "Changes to ADA Guidelines ‘On Hold’ Pending a Regulatory Review by the Obama Administration" was published on February 20, 2009.
Target Corporation was sued under the ADA for inaccessibility of its website We gave you an early heads up about how lawsuits brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) can target your website or online reservation system . . . and what you should do about it now. Now there is much more. For […]
As we noted in my Hotel Law Blog interview of January 6, 2009—ADA Sweeps by U.S. Department of Justice – Coming to a theater district or hotel near you soon?—the Department of Justice initiated the Times Square/Theater District ADA Compliance Sweep involving nearly 50 popular tourist hotels. For various reasons, some of these hotels’ owners […]
An important ADA sweep has been launched — a development involving the Americans with Disabilities Act — and there are important, cost-effective steps a prudent owner or operator can take now to solve unnecessary problems. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound a cure. ADA defense champ — 300 cases I recently caught up […]
On November 17, 2008, the United States Supreme Court let stand a key Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that a “serial plaintiff” and his attorney, who had filed more than 400 lawsuits against California businesses, could not file repeated Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) lawsuits against business owners without first obtaining court […]
Marty Orlick’s article, "Don’t Let Your Client’s Web Site Become Target of ADA Lawsuit," appears in the June 2007 issues of Commercial Property Management Insider and the Commercial Tenant’s Lease Insider.
Jim Butler and Marty Orlick co-authored an article titled, “How Hotel Swimming Pools May Spawn ADA Lawsuits And What To Do About It,” which was published by ehotelier.com.
When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted by Congress in July 1990, the Internet was in its infancy and few, if any, considered its applicability to cyberspace. But a San Francisco Federal judge’s recent decision not to dismiss a discrimination case against retailer Target Corporation has brought the issue to the forefront. Believed […]
