I’ve written quite a few times in the last decade about the absurdity of HUD’s position that landlords cannot charge a fee or deposit for an assistance or emotional support animal.¹ HUD’s position has never made sense because asking for the waiver of a fee or deposit is just another kind of accommodation claim that
I noted this headline in my Google news feed this afternoon: “Attorney involved in dozens of ‘sue-and-settle’ lawsuits around KC may have web accessibility issues on his own sites.” The story was pretty much as expected. Attorney Kevin Puckett files 90 lawsuits for a single plaintiff who claims to be disabled. The attorney’s own website
Artificial Intelligence, or at least talk about AI, has become inescapable. Like “gluten free” it has been become a marketing tool that doesn’t mean anything. Gluten free toilet paper? – I’m sure somebody is selling it. AI powered paper clips? If not today then certainly tomorrow.
Nonetheless, AI is real in the sense that computers
In the children’s nonsense song written by Burl Ives an old woman swallows a fly for reasons unknown and then:
My partner, Jeanne Huey, just published her blog “The Stakes Just Got Higher: Texas Legislataure Cracks down on Barratry.” Barratry is, of course, stirring up unnecessary litigation or, more particularly, doing one of several things that have been made a crime and/or ethical violation in most states. These include:
What can be made of this assortment of information concerning ADA litigation over website accessibility?
May 2025 website accessibility litigation – 445 new cases, 123 of which against previous defendants and 119 against websites using some form of widget that supposedly improves accessibility.¹
May 2025 headline “Federal Trade Commission Orders accessiBe to Pay $1M For
The headline was all too familiar, “Toddler mauled by service dog.” We have seen it before when untrained animals were allowed on airlines or in other public places.(6) When it is passenger passing off a peacock as an emotional support bird it is funny. When it is a child who may be disfigured for life
That title is a little misleading because, in fact, the federal Fair Housing Act does not prohibit source-of-income discrimination.¹ I noted just this morning a case from Maryland² discussing a specific issue related to source-of-income discrimination and thought this was a good reason to take a brief look at source-of-income laws.
I have to start
ADA serial filers and their lawyers are not popular with the businesses they target, as illustrated very clearly by the recently filed Baek Family Partnership, LLC et al v. Wampler, Carroll, Wilson & Sanderson PLLC et al, Case No. 3:25-cv-00584 (D. Or.). But before discussing that case, I’d like to look at past attempts to
I am belatedly blogging about two recent decisions that have already been discussed elsewhere.¹ The legal issues presented are interesting,² but for businesses concerned with service animals the practical lessons are, I think, more important.
In Mission Working Dogs a group of disabled individuals took their service dogs in training to a local mall where they