| Skateboarding
Website Is Sued For Excluding Blind Man
Who Wants Apparel So Mediation
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 1 – Grizzly Gridtape LLC
has a website about
skateboards, and related
apparel. It has been sued
under the Americans with
Disabilities Act, by a
visually impaired
person.
On March 1,
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge John G. Koeltl held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Judge
Koeltl asked what the visually
impaired plaintiff had been
seeking to buy from the
skateboarding website.
Apparel, he was told.
T-shirts.
He asked about
the Magistrate - no agreement
- or mediation, which was
agreed to. He made a referral
to the mediation panel with a
request for a status update
after.
The case is
Sanchez v. Grizzly Griptape
LLC, 20-cv-10682 (Koeltl)
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