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Court Holds ADA Requirements Do Not Apply To Internet Site


by Theodore F. Claypoole View Biography
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice View Firm Credentials
Charlotte Office

June 26, 2004

Previously published by Southeast Tech Wire on October 29, 2002

Earlier this month a federal court in Florida held that an airline's Internet website is not subject to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), despite a public interest group's attempt to force the airline to accommodate blind Internet users. This decision included one of the first direct rulings that a commercial website is not a "place of public accommodation" that must be made accessible to handicapped customers.


 

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