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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The ADA and Your Website A Guide to Website Accessibility Claims

Most employers know the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as the law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability and requires reasonable accommodations of employees’ disabilities. However, this prohibition is...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Surfing the “Interwebs” May Not Be a Public Accommodation Issue Under the ADA, According to 11th Circuit

In a long-awaited opinion, the Eleventh Circuit held that websites are not places of public accommodation for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). When employers think of the ADA, the first thing that likely...more

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

The Rising Tide of ADA Litigation Against Health Care Entities

Over the past several years, health care entities have increasingly become the target of private and government plaintiffs complaining of disability discrimination. A crescendo of litigation has engulfed the health care...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Is Your Online Job Application Accessible To The Visually Impaired? The Newest Website Accessibility Claims

In recent years, businesses have been inundated with a wave of serial litigation wherein private plaintiffs have argued that websites that are insufficiently compatible with screen reading software are in violation of Title...more

Perkins Coie

Digital Inclusion: How the Section 508 Standards Can Impact Your Organization

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As more everyday activity migrates to digital technologies and the internet, a wave of new lawsuits are testing the boundaries of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the digital world. The rapid proliferation of...more

BakerHostetler

FCC Shows Hand on Regulation of Edge Providers

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In a prior post, we commented on how the recent expansion of the FCC’s authority to regulate the privacy practices of Internet service providers (ISPs) has ignited calls for further expansion of the FCC’s authority to cover...more

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