A Supreme Court case about hotel websites could blow up much of US civil rights law
A Supreme Court case about hotel websites could blow up much of US civil rights law
A case about hotel websites could blow up much of US civil rights law.
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The very cool comments here that are totally for the protections of ADA if only it weren’t for the crummy enforcement mechanisms belie the fact that these protections are vitally important. The only reason I can reliably book a hotel is because these rooms exist and they’re advertised that way on the website. If we’re to have a system where we can only book hotels online and we want to protect vulnerable people, this is the only way we have to do it right now.
Absent changes to how businesses can have these complaints enforced on them, denying this remedy means we will not protect these people, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise
Dude, literally nobody here is calling for the abolishment of the ADA "and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise." What they are complaining about is how easy it is to abuse reporting, which hurts both the business serving a market and the people who the ADA is designed to help.
abolishment of the ADA
Except that’s precisely what the case is about, everyone commenting here is against this form of enforcement, so yes that’s exactly what’s happening. If a business is non compliant my only remedy is to sue them to make them compliant.
My dude, you keep on walking headfirst into the point:
everyone commenting here is against this form of enforcement
Yes, that's what the commenters on this story are complaining about, not the concept of the ADA itself.
Absent changes to how businesses can have these complaints enforced on them,
This right here is what the other posters want to see changed. Don't conflate posters here agreeing with the article's point (that the enforcement mechanism in the ADA is easy to abuse for bad-faith litigants) with people who want to see the ADA gone.
Then change the law. Absent a change in law, what you're advocating for is making the ADA gone.
Then change the law
Holy fucking god, that's the point we've all been making. The ADA should not allow assholes like the ones going before SCOTUS to exist. Once again, you've walked right into the point.
Absent a change in law, what you're advocating for is making the ADA gone.
I literally said the exact opposite of this.
That’s not true, in most cases you can let the company know and they’ll correct the issue themselves without court order because they likely didn’t even think of the scenario. My work has had to build/move/change several things over the years as different parts of the business are noticed to not be accessible
The ADA needs government regulators. But it was signed into law by a Republican president, having been "compromised" to be "bipartisan" (had its balls cut off by Republicans).