Shocking: Lawyers scope out businesses violated American w/ Disabilities Act, then find Plantiffs (Congress, legal)

[EdwardA]

Liberals insituting laws that hinder small businesses while making lawyers rich. No wonder John Edwards is a Democrat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/ny...s.html?_r=1&hp

A small cadre of lawyers, some from out of state, are using New York City’s age and architectural quirkiness as the foundation for a flood of lawsuits citing violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The lawyers are generally not acting on existing complaints from people with disabilities. Instead, they identify local businesses, like bagel shops and delis, that are not in compliance with the law, and then aggressively recruit plaintiffs from advocacy groups for people with disabilities.
The plaintiffs typically collect $500 for each suit, and each plaintiff can be used several times over. The lawyers, meanwhile, make several thousands of dollars, because the civil rights law entitles them to legal fees from the noncompliant businesses.
The practice has set off a debate about whether the lawsuits are a laudable effort, because they force businesses to make physical improvements to comply with the disabilities act, or simply a form of ambulance-chasing, with no one actually having been injured.

[thecoalman]

There is too many lawyers in this country, simply not enough legitimate business to support all of them. This is one profession where it's very easy to "make work" hence the reason we see examples like this so often. With nearly half of Congress being lawyers, other politicians that are lawyers and the huge sums of money given by lawyers as political donations don;t expect much action by the government on it. If anything they will create more laws that can abused.......

[Sporin]

Been going on for some time...

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