Category: Legal

What Happened? Just a quick heads-up. Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Section 504 regulation’s “integrated setting” requirement nationwide in Texas v. Kennedy, No. 5:24-CV-225-H (N.D.…

August was a quiet month in the courts. Lexis only gave me three interesting digital accessibility cases this month, and not one of them made new law. What they reveal is how the outcome of a web accessibility case depends…

Apart from catching a nasty head cold after the ADA Symposium in Phoenix, July was pretty uneventful for me. There also wasn’t much happening in the courts. Even in the 7th Circuit, Plaintiffs Can Still Be Kicked Out: Cole v.…

This post goes way beyond digital accessibility. It should get the usual “red alert” treatment, but it’s much bigger than that. If the past red alerts were like fire alarms in your building, this is more like a tsunami alert…

We Called It: The SBA’s Weak Case for Killing the Title II Web Rule Unfortunately, it’s back to the barricades. Two years ago, just after the Supreme Court decided Loper Bright v. Raimondo, we predicted that someone would eventually use…

May was a noticeably calmer month with hardly any cases to report on. That’s not to say it’s been a slow month after HHS extended the deadline of its new Section 504 web accessibility requirements back a year. California Courts…

Three weeks ago, I warned that HHS was preparing to postpone the Section 504 web and mobile accessibility deadline. Well, it happened. On May 7, HHS published an Interim Final Rule that extends the compliance deadline by one year. Recipients…

April was a quiet month in the courts. The action this month was elsewhere. On the regulatory front, the DOJ published an interim final rule extending the Title II web accessibility compliance deadlines by one year, and HHS is threatening…