I leaned over the weekend Moraga Nursery will be closing in October due to an ADA lawsuit. I just leaned from a neighbor McDonnell Moraga Nursery was hit with a similar ADA lawsuit as was Golden Palace, Rustic Tavern, Bistro Burger and the Lafayette Park Hotel. There’s a serial non-ADA compliant lawyer out of Las Vegas who has filled numerous lawsuits against many small businesses in Orinda, Moraga and Lafayette.
I’m wondering if anyone knows if what other businesses are being sued over ADA and which ones are going out of business and when?
this lawyer is a bottom feeder. i used to take my disabled mom to moraga nursery… yes it wasn’t the most friendly walking for her but jesus, why not make the suit to help the owner make it more friendly for ada needs. now this self serving attorney will make a lovely place my mom loved disappear. special place in hell…. it’s a money grab for low hanging fruit that offers nothing to benefit disabled folks in those communities. he/she doesn’t want change, it’s about profit.
This is a HUGE issue for small business owners - many of us have heard these stories over the years and they are 100% on the increase. If you want to help, work with your city government and the state legislature to ban these frivolous ADA lawsuits which are literally destroying small businesses and lives. Things are DIRE for small business owners. Pretty soon all that will be left standing are Ross Stores and TGIFriday restaurants with legal departments to fight these claims, your local entrepreneurs will be gone. You can read a great example here: CA serial ADA filer keeps filing lawsuits despite indictment | The Sacramento Bee (sacbee.com)
Berkeleyside has an article about this: "Restaurants along Alameda’s Park Street have been hit with a spate of Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits, KPIX reports, all filed by serial litigant Orlando Garcia. ... many businesses settle with the filers for a few thousand bucks, prompting some to characterize the filings as a “shakedown.” A prominent filer of suits like these actually lives in Oakland, the New York Times reported last week: Albert Dytch has sued 180 businesses ..." See https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/07/26/vanessas-bistro-farleys-veridia…