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ADA Compliance & Defense Lawyer Update: 99 ADA Lawsuits Dismissed as Fraudulent and Malicious
Jim Butler | November 21, 2017
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Authors of www.HotelLawBlog.com 21 November 2017 JMBM's ADA Compliance and Defense team, led by my partner Marty Orlick, continues to help hotels and other businesses achieve compliance under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), and is actively defending numerous ADA lawsuits brought against our clients. Today, he shares one of the stranger tales of serial ADA litigation and describes how the judicial system in New Mexico stopped the plaintiff and her lawyer from filing frivolous and malicious ADA lawsuits. New Mexico Judge Dismisses 99 ADA Lawsuits as Fraudulent ...
ADA Defense Lawyer on Hotel Mixed Use: Tenants Not Liable for Common Areas
Marty Orlick | January 16, 2017
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com ADA Hospitality Defense and Compliance Lawyer: Hotel mixed-use projects have proliferated over the past decade or two — projects that combine a hotel with retail, residential, entertainment, office and other uses. In recent years, many of these projects combine hotel and shopping center elements. We are big fans of hotel mixed-use. Over the years, we have written about the numerous advantages that accrue to both hotels and shopping centers, when hotels are added to the right shopping or retail center. One study showed that the right ...
ADA Defense Lawyer: Philadelphia Court Hits Uber and Lyft for ADA Violations
Jim Butler | October 24, 2016
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com Uber and Lyft are back in the headlines again, but not for the usual ride share issues. This time it is for alleged violations of the ADA. Here is what my partner Marty Orlick, Chair of our ADA Compliance & Defense Group, has to say on this development. The City of Brother Love is Showing Love to Persons with Disabilities Under the ADA, but not to Lyft or Uber by Martin H. Orlick, Chair, JMBM's ADA Compliance & Defense Group From coast to coast, Uber and Lyft have come under increasing fire from disability rights organizations and ...
ADA Compliance & Defense Lawyer: ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits Escalate
Jim Butler | October 18, 2016
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com Click here for the latest articles on ADA Compliance & Defense. JMBM's ADA Defense & Compliance team takes the ADA seriously, and we recommend that our clients take a proactive approach in identifying and solving potential problems before they become lawsuits. For many years now, we have called attention to the importance of making website ADA-compliant, but hotels, resorts, restaurants, banks, retailers and other owners and operators of commercial real estate continue to be vulnerable to one of the more recent and serious waves of...
Hotel Fights Back: Judge Dismisses High Frequency Litigant’s ADA Pool Lift Case
Jim Butler | October 17, 2016
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Hotel Lawyers | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com Click here for the latest articles on ADA Compliance & Defense. JMBM's ADA Defense & Compliance team takes the ADA seriously, and we recommend that our clients take a proactive approach in identifying and solving potential problems before they become lawsuits. But sometimes serial plaintiffs just go too far with claims that cannot be justified and which violate the purpose and spirit of the ADA. Today, my partner Marty Orlick talks about a recent case that offers property owners and operators some relief against this type of harass...
ADA Compliance & Defense Lawyer Update: Lawmakers Consider Steps to Limit Abusive ADA Lawsuits
Jim Butler | February 24, 2016
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® 24 February 2016 As the number of ADA lawsuits continues to explode, both Federal and California lawmakers are considering steps to limit abusive ADA lawsuits. Here is an update on these positive developments from my partner, Marty Orlick, who heads JMBM's ADA Compliance & Defense Group that has defended more than 600 ADA cases and DOJ investigations. Amid Growing Concerns Over the Proliferation of ADA Lawsuits, Congress and the California Legislature Address Measures to Curb ADA Abuse by Martin H. Orlick, Chair, JMBM's ADA Compliance and Defense Group Since 2004, more than 20,000 ...
ADA Lawyer: FedEx Sued for Failures Regarding the Hearing and Speech Impaired
Martin H. Orlick | November 11, 2014
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® 11 November 2014 Click here for the latest articles on ADA ADA Lawyer: FedEx sued for failure to provide effective auxiliary aids and services for hearing and speech impaired employees and job applicants by Marty Orlick | ADA Compliance & Defense Lawyer Effective communication with blind, low vision, deaf, hard-of-hearing, speech impaired and cognitively challenged employees, potential employees, customers and guests is one of the fundamental tenets of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA"). For nearly 25 years, the ADA has been the most sweeping civil rights legisl...
