On May 8, 2012, the California Assembly Judiciary Committee defeated A.B. 1878 (Beth Gaines-R) by a clean party-line vote of 3-7. This bill would have provided businesses much needed relief from frivolous ADA lawsuits. . . . → Read More: California Legislature Once Again Turns Back on Small Businesses, Defeats ADA Reform Legislation
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In recent weeks, US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) has taken California legislators to task and urged them to address the excessive amount of “predatory” disability lawsuits that are plaguing the state. . . . → Read More: Senator Feinstein Calls on California Lawmakers to Enact Real ADA Reform September 6th, 2011
Local TV new cameras recently caught a Los Angeles area serial plaintiff out for his daily hike, even though the scores of Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits he’s filed against small businesses there claim he’s disabled by “end-stage emphysema” and largely confined to a wheelchair . . . → Read More: Los Angeles Newscast Catches ADA Fraudster on Daily Hike August 9th, 2011
If it’s not with phony wheelchair access claims or absurd consumer protection lawsuits, California plaintiffs lawyers also extort money from small businessmen and women by exploiting an environmental law that’s ripe for reform . . . → Read More: Trial Lawyers Plaguing California Small Businesses  Comments are closed  Judicial Hellholes  ADA, California, Consumer lawsuit abuse, environmental lawsuits, Jim Conran July 22nd, 2011
A recent Los Angeles Times story reports that judges there are bemoaning sharp budget cuts. Pardon our lack empathy . . . → Read More: California Judges Bemoan Court Budget Cuts April 29th, 2011
Past Judicial Hellholes reporting has documented ADA scam artists in California, Florida and elsewhere. But now Dallas-Fort Worth’s WFAA-TV reports that the scourge has spread to the Lone Star State, with help from a camera-shy shyster in the Sunshine State . . . → Read More: Wheelchair-Bound Woman in Texas Aids and Abets ADA Scam Artist Based in Florida March 11th, 2011
Despite what were supposed to be small business-friendly reforms to California law two years ago, the pernicious wheelchair lawsuit industry there rolls on, destroying beloved community businesses and jobs . . . → Read More: ADA Racketeers Still on a Roll in California January 2nd, 2011
The Sacramento Bee reports the latest small business closure resulting from yet another abusive disability access lawsuit. The San Francisco small bookstore owner who was forced out of business said of the wheelchair-bound professional plaintiff, he ” is picking off small business owners like grapes on a vine.” . . . → Read More: ADA Litigation Kills Another California Small Business |
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