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A Company’s Website Is Not a “Public Accommodation” Under the ADA, a California Court Finds
By Jason P. Brown & Robert T. Quackenboss on February 11, 2019
Posted in California Developments
As we discussed in a previous post , the courts, the Congress, and the Department of Justice (the “DoJ”) continue to grapple with the scope of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA”) as it relates to the accessibility of private businesses’ websites for disabled people. A decision by one state trial court in California seems to adopt a more strict reading of the definition of “public accommodation” than previous cases in California and in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes the federal courts in California) on the subject, which further demonstrates the difficulty that many courts, including this one, are having with these ADA website accessibility cases.
In Martinez v. San Diego County Credit Union, San Diego Superior Court Case No. 37-2017-00024673, the court recently dismissed a website accessibility case shortly after commencing trial and issued a sua sponte order for a nonsuit after briefing from the parties, holding that the [...]