Seyfarth Synopsis: Fewer online videos from UC Berkeley will available to the public as a result of a DOJ demand that the videos have closed captioning....more
3/14/2017
/ Accessibility Rules ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Closed Captioning ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Digital Media ,
Educational Institutions ,
iTunes ,
Online Videos ,
Public Access Laws ,
Title II ,
University of California ,
YouTube
Seyfarth Synopsis: Retailer and Texas bankers go on the offense in response to ADA Title III lawsuits and demand letters.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of banks, retailers, and other businesses have received demand...more
3/2/2017
/ Accessibility Rules ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Attorney's Fees ,
Banks ,
Confidentiality Agreements ,
Declaratory Relief ,
Demand Letter ,
Mootness ,
Retailers ,
Settlement ,
Title III ,
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Seyfarth synopsis: A Florida Judge Holds that SeaWorld’s website is not a place of public accommodation covered by Title III of the ADA but the decision has its limits....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The number of federal ADA Title III lawsuits continue to surge, fueled by new plaintiffs, new plaintiffs’ lawyers, and website accessibility claims.
Our 2016 lawsuit count is complete, and the results...more
Seyfarth synopsis: The federal government has adopted the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Levels A and AA as its accessibility standard for federal agency websites, making it very likely that the Department of...more
Today marks just over a month since Donald Trump was elected as the next President of the United States. As each cabinet appointment is announced, we get more clues to help us predict which direction the Trump...more
12/13/2016
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Alternative Minimum Tax ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Cadillac Tax ,
Capital Investments ,
Capital Markets ,
Clean Power Plan ,
Clean Water Rule ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Coal Industry ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Cuba ,
DACA ,
DAPA ,
Defense Contracts ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Deregulation ,
Dodd-Frank ,
EB-5 ,
Employer Mandates ,
Employment Eligibility Verification ,
Endangered Species Act (ESA) ,
Energy Policy ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Executive Compensation ,
Exports ,
F-1 Visa ,
Foreign Subsidiaries ,
Form I-9 ,
Free Trade Agreements ,
Groundwater ,
H-1B ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Immigration Reform ,
Iran Sanctions ,
L-1 ,
Lending ,
Loans ,
Medicare ,
Minimum Salary ,
Multinationals ,
Paris Agreement ,
Popular ,
Presidential Elections ,
Renewable Energy ,
Repatriation ,
Repeal ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
STEM ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
Trans-Pacific Partnership ,
Trump Administration ,
Unpaid Overtime ,
US Army Corps of Engineers ,
USCIS ,
Venture Capital
Seyfarth Synopsis: DOJ announces that proposed rules for state and local government websites will issue July 2017.
The DOJ announced last week in the federal government’s Unified Agenda that it will be issuing a...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Our thoughts on the impact of the election on the ADA Title III landscape.
We now know that January 20, 2017 will bring a definitive regime change. How will this change impact Title III of the ADA,...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The number of federal lawsuits alleging inaccessible websites continues to increase, along with the number of law firms filing them. Businesses should seek advice now on how to manage risk in this chaotic...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The number of federal lawsuits alleging inaccessible websites continues to increase, along with the number of law firms filing them. Businesses need advice now on how to manage risk in this chaotic...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The number of access lawsuits has surged in both Arizona state and federal courts, prompting an unprecedented intervention by the Arizona Attorney General.
By our count, nearly 300 ADA Title III...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: DOJ announced today an extension to October 7, 2016 for the public to submit comments on the SANPRM for state and local government websites.
In May of this year the Department of Justice surprised us...more
In honor of the 26th anniversary of the ADA, we are sharing our mid-year count of ADA Title III lawsuits for 2016 and it’s newsworthy: The number of lawsuits filed in federal court is already at 3,435, up 63% from last...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: If you would rather not read the 30-page small print Federal Register notice, this summary will provide you with what you need to know about the Justice Department’s most recent official pronouncement on...more
5/23/2016
/ Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Mobile Apps ,
Public Accommodation ,
Social Media ,
Title II ,
Title III ,
Undue Burden ,
Website Accessibility
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a refreshing breath of fresh air, a federal judge holds that an intent to return as a “tester” does not give a plaintiff standing to sue under Title III of the ADA....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Public entities and private businesses have been waiting for years – since 2010 – for the Department of Justice to issue regulations setting a standard for website accessibility. The DOJ has announced that...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In what has been deemed the first of its kind, Netflix has entered into an agreement with the American Council of the Blind, the Massachusetts-based Bay State Council of the Blind, and a blind individual,...more
Website accessibility is an evolving and complicated topic, about which we’ve written many times. Thanks to delayed regulations and the Department of Justice’s changing positions on the issue, businesses have been caught off...more
There is more bad news for businesses that thought that they could wait for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue specific regulations before making their websites accessible to individuals with disabilities. Federal...more
Our research department has crunched the numbers from the federal court docket and the verdict is that the ADA Title III plaintiff’s bar and their clients are still busy filing lawsuits. Here are the findings...more
In late December, nine Democratic senators (Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Cory A. Booker (D-N.J.), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Benjamin L. Cardin...more
Last week, Buzzfeed reported that the United Spinal Association opposed Uber’s CEO’s nomination for Time Magazine’s Man of the Year award because Uber cars are allegedly not wheelchair accessible. This controversy raises an...more
In an astonishing move, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will not issue any regulations for public accommodations websites until fiscal year 2018—eight years after it started the rulemaking process with an...more
We’ve done the review and crunched the numbers: It appears that the surge of ADA Title III lawsuits we saw from 2013 to 2014 is holding strong, though possibly leveling off.
You may recall that there was a 60% increase...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the Gates-Chili Central School District in New York because it refused to have its teachers help a kindergarten student with epilepsy and other...more