Crema Coffee in San Jose Closes Due to ADA Lawsuit

Re:Crema Coffee in San Jose Closes Due to ADA Lawsuit by oh_sigh on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:36PM (#22231477)

OP said it starts to seem opportunistic, which I think is true, even if the party is actually disabled. Because the odds that a regular disabled person would encounter 200 unique buildings over a year that they couldn't access because of their disability seems quite slim.

And the opportunistic part comes in because these lawsuits are almost always "Fix the problem for $5*X, or pay me personally $X and I will drop the suit".

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Re:Crema Coffee in San Jose Closes Due to ADA Lawsuit by Pfhreak on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:40PM (#22231501)

> Because the odds that a regular disabled person would encounter 200 unique buildings over a year that they couldn't access because of their disability seems quite slim.

I would guess the opposite, that 200 buildings seems low for what a person might encounter in a year that failed to be accessible. That's basically saying, "It's a roughly 4-5 buildings a week" which absolutely seems in the realm of possibility to me. Especially in a older part of town.

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Re:Crema Coffee in San Jose Closes Due to ADA Lawsuit by Dylan16807 on Monday February 03, 2020 @11:04PM (#22232272)

I don't know if very many people visit 200 unique buildings in a year period, let alone ones with accessibility problems.

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