The California Court of Appeals, Fourth Appellate District, recently reversed a lower court ruling against a visually impaired plaintiff who alleged that a credit union’s website was incompatible with screen-reader software....more
7/6/2020
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Appeals ,
ATMs ,
Credit Unions ,
Disability Access Claims ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Dismissals ,
Nexus ,
Public Accommodation ,
Reversal ,
Software ,
Unruh Civil Rights Act ,
Websites
The California Supreme Court recently issued a ruling in White v. Square, Inc. that suggested standing to assert claims against websites for violations of the Unruh Civil Rights Act will be interpreted very broadly. In a case...more
9/11/2019
/ Accessibility Rules ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Appeals ,
Article III ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Public Accommodation ,
Standing ,
Title III ,
Unruh Civil Rights Act ,
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ,
Website Accessibility ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
On November 10, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit continued its recent trend of declining to enforce arbitration clauses after finding that the contracts containing those clauses were never actually formed...more
E-commerce forges ahead as many consumers’ preferred way of buying things, and the law is evolving to meet the demands of advancing technology while also accounting for the public’s protection. In the most recent example, the...more