In Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (Florida, Georgia, Alabama) vacated a trial court decision that the grocery chain violated the ADA because a visually impaired customer could not use its website to refill a prescription. The court rejected the use of the nexus test, …
The Georgia Supreme Court just gave defendants in Georgia a big victory as related to rulings on Default for untimely answer. The former rule put a very heavy burden on the defendant which was quite difficult to overcome. The new rule makes the burden much less onerous, thereby affording a defendant a …
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that existing federal law prohibits job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and transgender status. In a 6-3 vote, the Court decided that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate because of a …
The Supreme Court denied Domino’s petition to review a Ninth Circuit ruling that held a blind plaintiff could move forward with his ADA Title III lawsuit against Domino’s Pizza because the ADA protects access not just to restaurants and stores. The Ninth Circuit determined that allowing the claim to move …
In early April, the Eleventh Circuit found that qualified immunity does not shield jail guards from claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of people in custody, after an Alabama man died from internal bleeding after being kept in a jail cell overnight. Conflicting accounts as to whether the …
Court: Websites Need to Accommodate Blind Persons’ Access Think the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) only applies to brick and mortar business operations? A recent decision by a federal judge in Florida suggests you may need to revise that opinion.The increasing wave of lawsuits challenging website accessibility under the ADA had, …