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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/03/07 16:38
DrFeelgoodWA wrote:
> "Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in
> message news:5mhoamFdjesuU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
>>> Their Web site for applying for employment is inaccessible to
>>> low-income disabled people who are most in need of jobs.
>>> Is there any lawyer in the audience who will help me sue them?
>> Re the Target lawsuit on this subject:
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071003/ts_nm/target_blind_dc_3
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> Target wins. The Lawsuit happy ACLU lawyers don't stand a chance. Your
> lawsuit is about a retail chain making their shopping website
> accessible for blind potential customers. Seeing as no law requires
> them to even run a website they can not be required to make their
> website available to everyone.
You evidently know little about the law in general and disability law in
particular. It doesn't work this way.
> If they cave in to the blind lobby they
> lose to the low income. Next lawsuit would be to make Target hand out
> internet ready computers with paid internet service to any disabled
> person that says they can't afford a computer.
Poverty isn't covered by disability law, so this is a non sequitur. Are
you actually thinking these things out, or do you just like to rant?
> In the meantime prices rise at all target stores to cover stupid
> nuisance lawsuit cost.
Does it occur to you that it's a company's own fault if they lose
expensive lawsuits because they balk at spending a *little* bit of money
to achieve compliance in the first place? This outcome is completely
avoidable.
> Do you realize how much higher inflation is because of the ACLU and
> their lawsuit happy ways?
I think you have a distorted sense of the numbers involved.
> I do every time I need to buy something
> retail or wholesale. Do you know who gets the lions share of the money
> paid out in these ACLU lawsuits? It's the damn ACLU lawyers driving
> around in their BMW's paid for by everyone that buys anything anywhere
> anytime in this country.
So all of this is really about your bitterness about the ACLU, is it?
>
> Does anyone in here personally know anyone who actually benefited from
> an ACLU lawsuit besides ACLU lawyers?
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>
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