Skill and Chance
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« on: March 31, 2023, 12:03:56 PM » |
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« edited: March 31, 2023, 12:07:23 PM by Skill and Chance »
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Yes, this sounds like rent seeking and gives the many legit ADA plaintiffs out there a bad name. I don't think they would necessarily have to physically stay at the hotel, but they would need to have some sort of business interaction with it? For example, someone participating remotely in a conference hosted at the hotel might reasonably have standing?
On the other hand, I can imagine an egregious scenario where someone of group "XYZ" is surfing the web and randomly sees "no XYZ allowed here" on a public accommodation business's website, and XYZ is indisputably a protected class. Would someone of group XYZ have to physically go there and illegally get kicked out to have standing to sue them? Could some action be taken through a civil rights enforcement agency that would have legal force to rectify the situation based on the observation of the out-of-town individual searching the web?
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