Labor/Employment
Sep. 25, 2012
Gov. signs bill to curb abusive disability access litigation
A cottage industry of lawyers filing or threatening to file serial lawsuits against small businesses over these "technical" or minor problems has developed in California. By Jennifer Barrera and Katherine Pettibone
The governor's signing of Senate Bill 1186, authored by the Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat, and Sen. Bob Dutton, a Republican, last week provides an occasion to review the Americans with Disabilities Act in California and a bipartisan effort to curb abusive litigation in the state.
In 1990, then President George Bush signed into the law the federal American's with Disability Act. It was i...
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