The ADA has no federal backing. Any and all disputes are to be handled by the civil court system. This is a problem because it creates a class of sleazy lawyers who use equally sleazy disabled people to get settlements from establishments that are not quite compliant. This leads to a hostile atmosphere for all of the non sleazy disabled people who just want to go to a restaurant or a movie. In Eureka California a business owner closed his doors rather than make his restaurant accessible. The people of the community blame the disabled for this action, when the fault really lies with the law. No business owner who has just been made to pay damages to someone in a wheelchair is going to want said person as a customer. If the ADA enforcement was federal disabled people would not be the scapegoats for bad and even good business owners.
The business community needs to be shown the benefits of accommodation. Such as more revenue, because right now all they see is high handed lawyers and punishment.
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