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Civil Rights

Jul. 7, 2011

ADA Class Certified in Angels Suit

A federal judge has certified a class action against the Angels baseball team and the city of Anaheim for having too few wheelchair-accessible seats in the team’s stadium.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA ? A federal judge has certified a class action against the Angels baseball team and the city of Anaheim for having too few wheelchair-accessible seats in the team?s stadium.

The lawsuit charges that Angels Stadium has only 287 wheelchair-accessible seats, rather than the 439 it should have according to the Americans With Disabilities Act, and that it has only two such seats out of 3,733 on the ?Club level...

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