September 19, 2023
Historic properties and places of public accommodation built before the ADA was enacted are not exempt from accessibility requirements.
Category: Americans with Disabilities Act
Claiming Historic Status Does Not Relieve Inn of ADA Obligations
September 19, 2023
Accessibility is not just a convenience, it's an affirmative obligation.
Being “Polite” Does Not Ensure Access
August 18, 2023
Businesses falsely claim that polite phone calls are better at ensuring access than lawsuits. Our real-life experiences, and recent actions by the defendant hotelier in the pending Supreme Court case of Acheson Hotels v. Laufer tell a different story. Voluntary compliance is a myth.
Acheson Hotels v. Laufer: Debunking Common ADA Enforcement Myths
July 28, 2023
Briefs recently filed in the pending Supreme Court case of Acheson v. Laufer forward a number of false narratives about ADA litigation, and the people who bring ADA cases. Let’s examine, and debunk, some of these enforcement myths.
No Roll-Backs On My Civil Rights: A Past Plaintiff on Opposing H.R. 620, the ADA Notification Act
I'm Ingrid Tischer. You may remember me as "headless female torso using a walker" from Anderson Cooper's "ADA Hit-Piece of Horror" on 60 Minutes. But I'm here today to tell you about a different type of horror: Being a plaintiff in an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuit, in which you're presumed greedy and where whatever happened to you was no more than an inconvenience.