Landmark Calif. Burger Joint Forced to Shut Down Over ADA Lawsuit
Image source: Ford's Real Hamburgers
A decades-old Sacramento, Calif. burger joint is shutting its doors for being out of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act because the owner says he can’t afford to bring it up to code.
Ford’s Real Hamburgers has been slinging burgers, fries and shakes for years, but was hit hard in the recession. Now, KTXL-TV is reporting that a local attorney who makes his living filing ADA cases — many on his own behalf — is suing the restaurant — and Ford’s can’t keep up.
“We scrimped and saved and cut down the staff. I’m down to six employees,” owner Hank Vereschzagin told KTXL.
As the station noted, Ford’s is indeed out of ADA compliance: There isn’t enough room to roll into the bathroom in a wheelchair. But Vereschzagin said he just doesn’t have the money to fix the more than 60-year-old building.
“I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m going to do next,” he said. “I just know I can’t keep this open.”
Scott Johnson, the attorney filing the suit, didn’t comment to KTXL about the Ford’s complaint, but he did speak to the station earlier this year when he was suing a diner.
“Being a quadriplegic, there’s nothing I can do about that,” Johnson said in February. “But these businesses that have structural barriers to access, that’s frustrating.”
Jerry Silvia, a longtime Ford’s customer who is paralyzed from the chest down, said the lack of accessibility has never stopped him from enjoying his regular order: a 1/3-pounder with fries.
“I’ve been coming here 21 years,” Silvia said. Of Johnson, he added: “He’s strictly crusading on his own behalf.”
(h/t Breitbart TV)
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Sick-N-Tired
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:41pmThis is WHERE GLENN Beck followers should jump in and help this man out. Enough people could get together to get the volunteers to do!! If you live in the area, do something, don’t just comment on a bulletin board.
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13th Imam
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:58pmWhen the SHTF, eliminate these Communist Lawyers first.
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RLTW
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:11pmCalifornia is no longer part of the United States, so I see no reason to assist anyone in that country.
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:12pmThis lawyer is a parasite. Using his disability to steal money from business owners.
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:32pmI like basketball, I just suck at it,,,,,,do you think I can get the net lowered ………………???
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environmentalandawake
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:32pmThe real problem is that, even if we all mobilized and helped this fella out, he’s in Cali. It would probably cost him upwards of $50,000-$100,000 to upgrade even if he didnt have to pay a stich of labor. Welcome to the Obama template of America (California).
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yougottabekidding
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:14pmWe spend millions of dollars ripping up street corners for handicap
access some in places that take months to redo because of moving
traffic lights in places there is no predestrians for miles. Nothing
but corn fields. Then you have to go around them in the street even
if they have access, and your looked at as the idiot.
So everyone realizes.
Hussains regulators played with ADA so a lot of people are not in
Compliance even if you were. More lawsuits to come
By the way my wife is handicapped so no stupid don’t care crap
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Lt_Scrounge
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:35pmThe problem is that even if enough volunteers would step forward, the costs for obtaining the necessary permits would be prohibitive. While I firmly support a requirement that businesses make “Reasonable” accommodations for disabled employees, to demand that a business make unreasonably expensive ones for customers is idiotic. There is supposed to be free enterprise in this country. That means if you don’t want to do business with a company, you don’t. If they don’t want to spend the money to attract your business, you go elsewhere. How many businesses have been put under by these stupid lawsuits? How many jobs have been lost over them? I know of one shopping center that was going to reconfigure one store to accommodate the expansion of the adjacent restaurant. The entire thing went away when it was pointed out that the new bathroom that they were planning as part of the remodel wasn’t going to be ADA compliant, they had to drop their plans because of the cost of redesigning the plans. The store owners had been fighting the plan for years but their attorneys had told them that the plan was going to go through. Then the store manager looked at the shopping center contractor and said “You had better check to see if the new bathroom is up to code per the ADA.” It wasn’t and the entire plan went away.
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Rob
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:57pmActually, we should have a good old fashioned necktie party for the jerk that runs around suing people. Not everyone can do eveything. Get over it.
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Female
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 4:01pmHabitat for Humanity:
Shovel ready grant!!!!! money for SF
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BRQ
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 4:03pmHow about he moves out of California, then we help him.
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Sharon Rose
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 4:11pmI’ve got a hammer, nails and the time…lets go
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MetalPatriot
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 4:59pmAs a Californian, you guys have no idea how bad this ****** me off. Because of so many “handicap” regulations, NOBODY can open a service oriented business. My wife and I were looking at an old house to turn into a beauty salon for her (she’s a manicurist). The home on the property is built on a hill (like all in the area). There is very little parking anyway, very old town. We were told we’d have to put an ELEVATOR in for handicapped people. She has older female clients, some in their 80′s & 90′s and none need an elevator. It would have cost over $200,000 to renevate in order to comply. And, it is zoned for business. THIS IS CALIFORNIA.
And for the folks that simply say, “move” F-U! We CAN’T move. There’s many like us that are trapped. That’s part of the “-ist” and NWO plan. We’re friggin trapped. I can’t believe the idiot that recommend this business owner “just move”. Obviously, if he can’t afford to keep employees or keep up with rapidly changing/expanding government codes, he CAN”T leave either.
I’m not looking for sympathy, but so many people don’t realize what it’s like when so many liberties are being taken away. Regulations = bondage.
And, in CA, if/when this man can make the changes…guaranteed next year the codes will change from a different agency. Small business is under SEVERE attack.
GO UNIONS! (extreme sarcasm)
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SgtB
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 5:31pmAny of you who have enjoyed an episode of little people big world should know that that family makes their living off of doing scams just like this one. The ADA needs to be shut down and the lawyers and judges that upheld it should be hung from trees for all to see as they have been stealing the property rights of men for far too long.
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bboop1934
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 6:50pmSince I don’t live in California, is there somewhere we could send donations? I would be more than happy to do that.
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lordjosh
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 6:56pmWe don’t need to shut down the ADA. Just stop asking for permission to open a business. Stop seeking “privilages and immunities” by organizing under the government and tell them to buck off when they tell you otherwise. He consented to the rules when obtained a business licence and organized as Corporation or LLC.
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Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:15pmYou vote for evil, vile, wicked leaders so what do you expect? Laws that are unjust, unfair, and destroy free enterprise. Blame yourself, accepting such crappy leadership, for this mans business closing. Welcome to America the unjust.
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Hillbillybone
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:17pmThe place has been in business before the ADA was even in existence!
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Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:18pmCA voters elect trash and then expect their lives to be full of rights and freedom of the past. Wake up voters you are the problem. We have always had vile, wicked, evil candidates, but in the past they were usually not elected. Voters with no moral compass are the problem.
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john141714
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:21pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYeNi6KWBus
Penn and teller on handicapped parking
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Arlee
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:23pmNot sure about the overreaching “codes” he may have there but my first thought is to rent a handicap porta-potty. He could put it right near the handicap parking space! It would only cost about a $100 a month which would include maintenance. Depending on where you are, these accessibility laws only kick in when you remodel or significantly change an existing out of code older building, with some exceptions.
If nothing else it could help him keep his doors open long enough to bring this to a public debate, outreach and shine yet another light on the overreaching unfriendly government.
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Bluebonnet
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:24pmBoy, am I glad I moved out of that UN-GODLY, un-friendly to business state over 40 years ago. I’m sure it was God who paved the way to move because I used to think I’d never live anywhere else but Calif.
The rest of the country is catching up with all these unreasonable demands of a business. Seems like if you can’t use the facilities, you’d go someplace else and let those who are happy with the place keep using it. This is just common courtesy. What do I do when I’m around jerks with too much perfume on? I leave, period. I don’t have a lawsuit or get pizzed like some of these people do who can’t be accommodated to their liking.
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idarusskie
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:44pmhow can they make him upgrade? It should be code of record of when it was built.
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WATER-THE-TREE
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 8:11pmIf you can’t access the building then don’t eat there, but don’t ruin it for everybody else, that lawyer is a dirtbag. What doe he get for hurting the other people that enjoy this restaurant, not to mention the people now without jobs!
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ex-californian
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 8:21pmThis parasite attorney has filed ove 1,000 ADA lawsuits against businesses. He traveles around California looking businesses to sue…he usually settles with easy businees for several thousand $$$. This how he makes his living…sueing…businesses. Here is a news story about this little restaurant with more info than the story above. THIS is why we need tort reform in this country. What this guy does is nothing short of extorsion. Click here for more insite: http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=76046
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iLove2fish
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 8:38pmI wonder if the owner has checked into the rules for getting an establishment declared a historical landmark? That way the ADA would not apply as strictly due to the need to remain “historically accurate”?
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colt1860
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 8:40pmSo instead of having a place where a handicap person won’t be able to **** and p*ss, now they won’t have a place to eat and socialize either? WTH!? These liberal, progressive, big Government idiots have got to go come November!
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ex-californian
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 8:44pmHere is another good story about this “sewer” attorney…and other business he has put OUT of business.
http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20110508/NEWS/110509912
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MetalPatriot
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 9:40pmTo: Prosecute
I’m agreed with you about getting who you voted for, however if that was directed at me; my wife and I have never had the people/propositions we vote for come into being.
Most often, when we engage in conversations regarding “real stuff” people have literally said, “I just want to put blinders on and go about my life.”
It’s aweful that CA was once “the place” to go to start over, start a buisness, get a job, a shot at success, farming, etc. Now, it’s every race except whites, different languages everywhere, a severely corrupt (like Chicago) government, huge gang/drug trafficking problems, people breeding in order to get paid $500 a kid, buisness go under constantly.
btw: Asian businesses have a HUGE start-up/go-under rate. Where/why do they keep getting loans? Even their banks change names every 6 months. Money laundering…period.
There is literally no end to the sickness, corruption, & evil of mankind’s souls.
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NeoFan
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 10:52pmAll aircraft need to be modified so we can have blind pilots.
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:49amLet’s hope there is some smart, aggressive Rental Agent/Mall Manager in Sacramento who has a vacant store, ready to go, totally compliant who will give this man about a year’s worth of free rent to get him in there and bring his followers with him to the Mall…with photos and other memorabilia …same colors etc. Can’t you see a bigger than life size photo of the sign, the History of the store on the walls? But now able to accommodate wheel chairs, and yes, I think it’s okay to make concessions to do that !! Once I had to be in Wheelchair (sprained ankle) and I got a healthy respect for what it was like. SO make lemonade. Let him move his business to a modern facility, complete with HVAC/parking and compliant bathrooms etc. and fire up that grill !
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ProbIemSoIver
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:54amScrew the ADA. This Man has a right to Serve whoever he wants. IT’S HIS RESTAURANT !!!!
He should reserve the right to refuse service to anyone including Handicapped. If he is not ADA compliant, You either deal with it, or in America, you have the freedom to move you crippled @$$ up the road to someone who is “Compliant” !!!!
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Obama Been Lauding
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 5:37amSorry to sound insensitive, to this a**hole, but he could just find a police car outside this burger joint, and use the bathroom in the street, the Occupy dipsticks did it for over a year, with no problems.
Tit for Tat, how is that!!!???
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ProbIemSoIver
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 5:51amYeah NeoFan.
And the Blind and Crippled should sue the NFL, MLB, PGA and the like, because the Handicapped don’t get to play at the professional level. These Sports franchises should allow R#tards, Gimps and weeble wobbles to play professional sports also.
Sorry. LIFE is NOT FAIR !!!
This Country is destroyed because of EOE, Learning Curves, Hate Crimes, ADA and the LIKE.
All UnAmerican, and all a United Nations Initiative due to the FACT that the UN has been the Creditor of the Bankrupt US since it’s inception in 1945.
You have really seen an Influx of non-assimulating Immigrants since 1992 when America was sold to mostly Foreign Investors:
http://rense.com/general86/nomis.htm
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ProbIemSoIver
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 6:01amYou want to talk about frustrating, you worthless weeble wobble?
It’s @$$holes like you that have destroyed my country and way of life.
I have a first amendment right. A right to dislike you and tell you how much I think you are a cancer on America. Not because you are a Gimp, but because you think you are ENTITLED !!!!
You are entitled to move your @$$ up the road. Isn’t freedom great ????
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ProbIemSoIver
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 6:19amFrom a legal standpoint, in addition to a previous posters idea about a historic landmark loophole.
I would think he could make his business private.
A Members only club, like the VFW or American Legion.
Pay a small monthly due to get in to enjoy a great Hamburger.
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johnjamison
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 7:23amThis is where the owners sues the government for createing laws that deny him his Constitutional rights.
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zman173rd
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 8:15amIt’s the laws we created. You need to change the laws not help everyone who’s in non-compliance. Look around you today and you can find “inaccessablility” everywhere so they pick and choose thier battles.. Drive-up ATM’s require Braille discritpors to assist the blind. Of course the laws in this country are out of control. No common sense. just COMPLIANCE. Assimilate or be destroyed. The Borg are among us.
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Betsy Thiede
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 8:29amIf he puts up a donate button, I’ll kick in $25 bucks to help the man. I bet a lot of others will.
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forthepeople
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 9:05amSich n Tired : Nice idea but is just putting a bandage on the problem for these people will never stop trying to run our lives. It will always be something , until we give up like this man and many Americans are doing . Just so overwhelming and it has to stop ! Humans most always take a mile when given an inch that is part of the reason for fighting same sex marriage . It not the idea of a man /man or woman / woman is that bad , it is what’s next that has most worried . Multi-able partners , animal , tangible item ( car , house , etc ) marriages , sounds ridicules doesn’t it ? Remember we are dealing with humans , empowered ones to boot that have no bounds . See the seat belt law for animals in NJ being proposed ? these will never stop coming until WE as Americans do put and end to them .
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johnjamison
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 9:39amThe building inwhich the owner operates passed the codes when it was build it should therefor be grandfathered protected from these typoes of suits. Fact is if handicap people want larger doors to the restrooms they should gather a fund and ask the manager if he would agree to get the work down at their cost.
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objectivetruth
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 10:32am@MetalPatriot
Has your wife considered a traveling salon for her older clients?You wouldn’t need all the permits and probaly would be less expensive.I don’t know how it works in CA.Here in Va she could do that quite easily.We have some who do so and make good money at it.The insurance I think is a little higher but is offset by not haveing the headaches of clients at your home.Not only the legal headaches but the personal ones as well.I also think the business license may be a ltlle higher[may be wrong about that though]
It may be worth looking into.
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Silvertruth
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 11:15amIt is terrible when you are recognizably ‘different’ from others. You have challenges that others don’t face every day. It doesn’t matter if that’s a physical difference, emotional, mental or sexual one.
What we’ve lost here is the ability to be reasonable and rational. People with physical challenges want to be ‘normal’ so they get laws passed to make accommodations to environments that let them be more ‘normal’. There’s nothing wrong with that until they cripple a normal person (or persons) with the laws. It’s one thing for a large Hotel or someone building a new building to incorporated these features into the structure. It’s an entirely different matter to shut someone down because they can’t afford it. Now the group that says they are bullied is the group doing the bullying and it’s just wrong, we all know it.
It’s the same thing with the homosexual therapy issue. Nobody is holding a gun to the head of someone going into such therapy but the groups pushing for more power, more ‘normalcy’ see it as a crime, quackery, or whatever and THEY bully those looking for that kind of help by shutting down their options.
We have lost the ability to reason. We have lost the ability to see rational solutions, simple solutions, in favor of the guilt solution. We have lost the ability to say no to those outside of the ‘normal’ median of society. Welcome to tyranny of the minority.
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thesupreemleeder
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 11:34amGreat idea. However, there is probably a law in California that prohibits businesses (involved in a lawsuit) from receiving help for free to remedy said lawsuit. This sucks! Really sucks! I also thought that there was a clause that only required ADA compliance if it was reasonably fees-able for a business to do so?
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Cavallo
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 11:37amMaybe he can shut down, sell his property (at the inflated CA prices) and move to a freer less costly state, reopen his dream and live happy. Or, maybe he could shut down, sell off the assets, declare disability and live off the government dole for awhile, or forever. This is what the government wants, right? This should also be a lessen in why you should incorporate your business, otherwise the lawyers can come after your house, car, and your grandma’s jewelry. To MetalPatriot, you can get out. There are no thugs with guns at the border saying “No!” (at least not yet, give them time). It might be rough, it might cause a financial loss in the short term, but the long term benefits of moving somewhere free should far out strip the temporary economic set back of finding a way to liquidate and switch employment.
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TRUMPETCALL
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:15pmWhy can’t Mr Wheelie-Dude just go elsewhere for his burger???
Just sayin…..
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red_white_blue2
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:07pmI agree. I am all the way in New York state, and not even a contractor, but I’d be willing to make a donation to help him or the contractors that would do the work. If anyone knows or hears of anything, u can email me at tmcavey64@gmail
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Scottscobig
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:22pmAgain, the focus is on the symptoms and not on the root cause. There should be no laws about accommodations for the disabled or anything else. Nothing beyond natural law/unalienable rights is needed. A disabled person has no “right to a burger.”
Some of you may agree with that. But search your hearts. Somewhere, in some way there is a law, just as unreasonable as others you may decry, with which you agree.
The thing about freedom is that it must be universal. It must be simple. Live and let live. Force for defense, only. The nonaggression principle. Stop trying to control others. If someone’s doing or failing to do something you think he should and he’s violating no one’s rights, stay out of it. It’s none of your business. You don’t get to decide what’s good or reasonable for anyone but yourself.
But, then, if you believed these things that I believe, we wouldn’t be losing our country.
The fact that an argument can be made that someone should do something, like make accommodations for the disabled, doesn’t mean we can force him to do so. The disabled, and you who would care if an establishment were allowed to exist that doesn’t cater to them are free to boycott it.
You morons who think laws like those intended to help the disabled are reasonable are the ones responsible for the slow, painful, tortuous murder of liberty. I look forward to watching you burn in your self-created hell.
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SUNTZU
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:38pmIf I cant take a crap there,
nobody can.
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19RANDY59
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 3:03pmThe only reason we need lawyers, is because we have lawyers!!!
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SFALLC
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:21pmQuadriplegic and Paraplegic individuals have bags because they cannot control their bodily functions. It is a baseless and shameless lawsuit. An idividual who will never use a bathroom publicly should not be sueing over this. Smells like a liberal.
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rblaxmom
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:28pm@RLTW – that is not fair. Some of us are Republican and are trying to get things going in this state. We are being overrun but the lefty loons. Still, we have lived here all our lives and this is home. We are not all like the crazies in LA and SF.
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hoursesence78
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 5:08pmThat’s right people lets beat-up on the disabled. BTW the ADA was passed by the first Bush.
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Eblaze44
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 5:40pmNO, let it die. sooner or later WE are going to get tired of this ADA crap and tell them to stuff it. He can’t get in the bathroom – don’t go there – He has NO right to put a man and employees out of business. This ADA crap has GOT to stop. If a business can afford to fix – ok. If the business wants his business they’ll fix it – OK. But to put people out of business and people out of work when there are other places to eat and go potty – that is not right. We need to get OVER this nanny state.
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WardMD
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 6:26pm@Lt_Scrounge
You are SO RIGHT!
So, let’s see if I get this… A BUSINESS is COMPLELLED to comply with every aspect of the ADA – so that ANY handicapped person can fully “enjoy” the business, but that SAME handicapped person is under NO OBLIGATION to ever GO to that business!
The Business OWNER(s) is/are SCREWED, with NO GUARANTEE that they will EVER recoup the cost of compliance from those for whom the compliance is mandated!
It’s ONE THING for GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS/facilities to be ADA compliant (so that ALL citizens have equal access to our Government and its services), but it’s something else altogether to FORCE PRIVATE BUSINESS to comply with these regulations!
No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service!
Remember that signage?
NOW it’s No Wheelchair Ramp, No Handicap Restroom stalls, No BUSINESS!
I’ll be DAMNED if I’ll put one of those CO2 detectors (mandated by MY STATE) in MY HOME! AND I think I’ll add a few steps (up, then down again) on the way to my front door – JUST to keep wheelchair bound people AWAY!
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mend54jc
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 7:45pmThis is such a sad story. I know if there was anyway i could even donate 20 bucks i would if he had some website to go to and i believe that American’s would come together even if it meant helping to get him up to the codes. This is big government at it finest. And they have no clue what fighting for the middle class is. I agree with sick-n-tired i think we need to figure out if we can help try to keep his doors open.
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dmerwin
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 10:22pmI cannot see why the government cannot find a third option. “This establishment does not meet ADA requirements” and let them continue. Oh, I know why, people would go there just to help them stay in business.
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Obama_Forward_Over_The_Cliff
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 1:43am“I’ve been coming here 21 years,” Silvia said. Of Johnson, he added: “He’s strictly crusading on his own behalf.”
So let me get this straight … some cripple … who can’t buy a burger from this place, sues it to shut it down, so that he can’t buy a burger from this place?
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raynemaeker50
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 9:57pmThe problem is the lawyers and the law makers, if you fix this one, they’ll be hundreds more. That’s the reason most of our jobs are overseas now.
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fiveft15
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:37pmVery much like the recent ADA BS making the goofy golf type businesses change their courses to allow disabled in wheelchairs.That means tearing down all the hills and steps and water hazards that make it fun.Stinking attorneys!aaaawhy do you think our country is so screwed up since the majority of congress and the prez are lawyers!
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ProbIemSoIver
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 5:41am75% of ALL politicians are.Attorneys.
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cashe
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 7:52amPlease keep in mind, dear conservatives, that the ADA was signed into law by non other than George H.W. Bush.
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goahead.makemyday
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 9:23amCASHE,The idea of the ADA is good but only if balanced with the free market and applied to new construction. When people get the idea that they can get millions from just filing a complaint and not have to work for it we get these people. People who never contribute , they only use the system to take other peoples money. As for the disabled view I understand how frustrated people can get but forcing a man out of business because the lawyer wants more money is ridiculous. Say you host a party at your house for a friend, a guy in a wheelchair is invited. He sees your bathroom and calls his ADA specialist lawyer, and you get sued for twice as much as your family home is worth. Because your bathroom is ADA non-compliant you have to pay the $$$$$$$$$ AND the lawyers fees. This pretty much is what happened, I have no problem with ADA but I do have a problem with leeches and flatworms that use theses things to take hard earned money from people who earned it.
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 11:32am” attorney who makes his living filing ADA cases — many on his own behalf — is suing the restaurant ”
Reminds me of career lawyers that exploit loopholes in the law to screw over doctors. No wonder medical bills are ridiculous.
If the handicap want to help themselves, they should avoid attorneys like the plague, and give them less business.
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iampraying4u
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:55pmCant they grandfather him in?
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pcj
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 10:41pmThere is a whole sleazy group of lawyers who work this ADA scam and other scams like it, they know that insurance companies will pay off these claims just to get rid of them so the companies can focus their time and efforts on real cases. The lawyer knows the bathroom door isn’t wide enough for a wheelchair, why not find a burger place in a newer building that has bigger doors? The world is not perfect, in some cases it can’t be changed easily or reasonably, if it was, the owner would have done it. Get a life and do something good instead of being so mean and vindictive.
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neillwd
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:37pmCouldn’t he just close the restroom?
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Cataclysm
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:04pmno because its federal law saying there must be a bathroom… heck if the place serves beer or wine it needs two bathrooms one for men and the other for woman…
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Captain Crunch
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:43pmJust put a bucket and a roll of toilet paper outside the front door with a sign saying
“HANDICAPPED and ADA LAWYERS NOT WELCOMED”
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PASSIONFORCHRIST
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:59pmYes! He can close the restrooms and only use for employees, business’s do not have to provide you with a restroom as a customer. There, that’s fixed for him and he doesn’t have to shut down. I already called the place, got an answering machine left a message to call me back, hope he calls me back. Have a friend who went through the same thing, and in California. He never had to spend anything after that and he didn’t have to close his business!!!!
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crazyrightwingmom
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:11pmPassion: restaurants with seats always are required to have restrooms…
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John_Free
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:01amThat seems logical….close the restroom to the public???
I know lots of eateries that don’t have public restrooms.
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michael48
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:52pmcan’t…Kalifornica requires bathrooms and sleeping facilities for the illegals…left the pig pen 13 months ago..moved to America..every other house has a lawyer living in it..should say Squatting in it…study…sue..study sue the study…insane place to even attempt to do buss. and, or live…63 years and saw paradise turned into crap..thnx dem-its…enjoy serfdom, comrades …you earned it…
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:36pmCant take these lazy roll abouts.
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Noah_fing-whey
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:27pmThe irony is Johnson still won’t get any hamburgers from this place….and neither will anyone else. But I’m not so sure being able to use the toilet in this joint was his real motivation.
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goldcntry
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:40pmSo true…. this same guy caused many business in my home town and county (an hour southeast of Sacramento) to close with his lawsuits. He’s only in it for the money and doesn’t have a care in the world for all the mom-and-pop places he and similar ADA attorneys have closed in Northern California.
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Kitsune
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:51pmHe doesn’t want hamburgers. He just wants the owner’s money.
And he’ll get it. And the owner’s car, and the owner’s house.
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Noah_fing-whey
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:40pmYet we have to stand for this kind of crap day-after-day, week-after-week…..when does it end? I think it ends when all means if production and distribution, all private property rights, and the say so on the everyday matters of the life have finally transferred to the federal government. Is this acceptable? Maybe for the hardcore Obama voters its too late but what about all the people who playing farking FarmVille all day long and have no intention of voting. Are they a lost cause too! We are disintegrating at breakneck speed.
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sgtstubbs
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:45pmOK just wherre is his Osty tube. What was he planning to do in the wash room? He has to have someone to feed him his burger..
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:16pmJohnson’s motivation is the same as ALL progressives-CONTROL. THey just love to control people. The motivation behind most of their lawsuits, from removing the 10 Commandments to ADA lawsuits are not because they need to have it done, but because they want to control people.
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RepubliCorp
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 4:26pmhe needs full access to the deep end of a swimming pool
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TJexcite
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:26pmSomewhere there has to be a government grant to fix the counters but then you would be taking tax payer money. They give million to study a inch long fish they could not sent a few thousands over here with the right form and connections.
I would think that the Obama depression has more to do with it. In good times people would find the money to continue the good time but now there it is to much of a risk as savings are gone and the bank might give you the money but uncertainty can change and no one could even afford the real hamburger. As they just bought it no doubt they are already in underwater in the building.
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BODYBAG
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:24pmIm filing a lawsuit because Im dyslexic and Im demanding that all restaurant menus
look like this:
ISEFHOEHRHHEORISEIJE EPRJSE OJER EJJEFJ OJERJE
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Don
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 9:46pmHahahahahahahahahahaahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahhahahahhahahah!!!!!
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SUNTZU
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 3:04pmAnd can I have that to go please
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Patriot Z
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:19pmtell that whiney lawfare crippieboy pos to take a long roll off a short pier! he legs dont work, but apparently he lost his ballz too
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FreedomWitness
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:18pmWell you know what Shakespeare said about lawyers.
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Dano.50
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:52pmI had to chuckle when I read your comment. It reminded me of an encounter with a liberal lawyer who was the epitome of libiot and shyster.
Most take Shakespeare’s comment about lawyers to mean that getting rid of them would make settling disputes much easier.
This libiot shyster however, believes that Shakespeare meant getting rid of the lawyers is necessary because they are the supreme defenders of law and order.
Maybe that’s what William Shakespeare originally. I don’t know as I haven’t read the play from which the line came, but that’s not how people take it now, as evidenced in the Eagle’s song, “Get Over It.”
For those unfamiliar with the tune, it’s about all the whining and moaning people do, about how we’re all victims now.
The line I’m referring to is:
“The more I think about it, Old Billy (William Shakespeare) was was right, let’s kill all the lawyers, kill them tonight.”
Another great line is:
“I’d to find your inner child… And kick its little ass.”
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 11:48amAhh Shakespeare. ’tis a grey shame his canon has been razed from English syllabi
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G.E.R
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:17pmAfter 21 years of being in business I’m sure the owner made enough money to comply
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randy
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:25pmg.t.h … G.E.R
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:26pmYou certainly illustrate how little you know about how a small business works.
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UNALIEN
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:29pmhow do you know,,,
answer… you don’t,
you are perpetuating the adolescent modern liberal narrative,, “capitalist are evil” and the facts are irrelevant
He is closing instead… to do what make more money???
the recession/depression has been tough on small businesses..
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Dancing_In_The_Ruins
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:54pmThese are the guys who think that free roaming cows just walk right in and fall apart into perfect hamburger patties, the stoves run on happy thoughts and all the poor slaves that work there get no money.
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Flippy
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:56pmA bathroom renovation is extremely expensive in a house. In a business it is even more. In my office building it was over 100 grand per bathroom to renovate to ADA compliance which consisted of 2 stalls and 1 urinal. In the 15 years I have worked there I have seen no one ever in a wheelchair use the restroom.
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13th Imam
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:19pmGER business sign says,
No Public Restrooms
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Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:42pmHave no idea do you? Did you read the little part about how they have had to lay off people? Do you somehow think that because he has been in business for 21 years it means that he is rich? In your ignorance does longevity equate to prosperity? Have you considered having “I R STUPID” tattooed on your forehead genius.
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G.E.R
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:16pmSpare me the bleeding heart BS!. If the owner really cared about having a successful business he would have complied. Instead he was more interested in what he could get out of the business rather than what he could put into it. The ADA has been around for over 20 years(the one good thing Bush Sr. did) it’s not like it’s something new. And based on the video all that was needed was a wider door and some handrails. Like many business owners he’s just a cheap pr@#k and now he’s paying for it.
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TxSon
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:51pmGER, there’s no hope for stupid so that makes you SOL.
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roostercogburn
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 8:36pmAfter 4 years of Obama, hard to believe their door was still open, if Obamma looses the election the country will win and you will finally see jobs created after 4 years of nothing, if Romney can sit down and undo Obama’s complicated regulations, yes he set another record on complicated regulations, he cost us 18.8 billion in 3 years, watch the country spring back after Obama is gone.
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rreactor
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 10:59pmG.E.R.
Seriously dude, get a grip. When all your favorite establishments close and your choices are limited because no one will be able to open a business and make a reasonable return on their investment, you will be whining for a good burger to buy with your food stamps, but it won’t be available. Sorry….
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QuincySmith
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:01pmg.e.r.;
What right does the government have to tell anyone whom it must serve? GHW Bush was a terrible president: ADA, Agenda 21, New World Order. If a business chooses to ignore or cannot afford ada compliance, the solution is to put that business out of business. Government mandates regulations, but does not provide funding for compliance (I wouldn’t advocate that approach – just pointing out that they are very free with other people’s money).
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UNALIEN
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:42pmG.E.R
You are expressing an ideology, one not based in reality.
He is closing the business because it is not profitable,,
To claim that he is closing because he is rich and won’t make the alterations is irrational.
If he could afford the alterations and be profitable, he would not close up..
You are expressing not just bad logic but an infantile ideology.
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COFemale
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:17pmSo this greedy little B is going to put a business out of business, which will create six unemployed people so he can benefit from a lawsuit. How often has this greedy little B tried to eat at this restaurant in the past year.
I understand ADA rules, but thought older buildings were exempt also until renovation took place, then they must comply.
I hope the citizens of CA who are able, can help this man remain open.
Sounds like this lawyer is out to punish people for his own gain. He will get his just reward.
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PALEHORSE
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:44pmThis guy makes all his money suing under ADA. He travels all over California just trying to find businesses that are just the smallest amount out of compliance. The guy is a POS. All he is trying to do is make money. He really doesn’t care if the place is out of compliance unless he benefits.
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50211bs
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:55pmI’ll lay odds on the fact that he is a BHusseinO supporter
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Libermerican
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:16pmWho is this Scott Johnson? Where does he live? Put him under the media spotlight.
Somebody post his address. Post his picture. Post interviews with all the companies he has sued. Glenn, this would be a great story to focus on, either yourself, or your news team. I’d love to see Amy bring this up for discussion.
We need to start posting his picture and address EVERYWHERE. Show everybody what a parasite he is. Protest in front of his house. Interview his wife and kids, ask them how they feel living off the destruction of others. Keep the media attention on him. Make him craw back under that rock he came from.
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randy
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:26pmWhile the law is designed to give disabled full access to public and private businesses, it has also become a lucrative business for attorneys like Johnson, who has filed more than 1,079 ADA lawsuits since 1996.
http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/ada-attorney-forces-out-small-business-pollock/
READ THIS!
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=76046
A News10 analysis of federal court records in the Eastern District of California indicated Johnson has been the plaintiff in at least 1,079 ADA lawsuits since 2003. Johnson said he hadn’t kept count, but did not dispute the number. He said his average settlement with business owners has been between $4,000 and $6,000.
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Libermerican
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:41pmThere are 10 Scott Johnson’s living in Sacramento. He is one of these:
http://anywhoyp.yellowpages.com/whitepages?from=AnyWho&fap_termsfirst=Scott&fap_termslast=Johnson&fap_termscity=Sacremento&fap_termsstate=CA
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Libermerican
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:54pmFound him:
http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/95608-ca-scott-johnson-385987.html
Disabled Access Prevents Injury, Inc
5150 Fair Oaks Blvd
Ste 101 PMB 253
Carmichael, CA 95608
Office: 916-485-3516
Everyone call his office, and leave complaints. Anyone live up there? Make a sign, and stand outside of his house. Contact the local 912 Project, Tea Party, Ron Paul, Conservative groups, and have them start scheduling rallies in front of his house.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:57pmWhile I agree with most of what you wrote and this guy’s a large type A-hole… his address, wife and kids being harrassed would do more harm than good. There are a number of ways to skin a cat and that would be totally unecessary IMO.
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Libermerican
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:03pmThe above is his office address, and I doubt he ever goes to it. He works out of his house. He lives in Carmichael. There are six Scott Johnson’s living in Carmichael:
http://www.peoplefinder.com/people-search/CA-Carmichael-Scott-Johnson/
My guess is the first one, but we need to be sure. We need to figure out where he lives.
Hopefully Bill O’Reilly will send Jesse Watters to interview this guy.
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neverending
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:13pmGee another wonderful accomplishment made because of hussein. That creep and his minions could care less who and when they take down just as long as it is done. Once again we are watching our country headed over the cliff bit by bit.
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kcares
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:25pmI met a veteran yesterday that is having to move his family to Germany because after he served our country, he can’t find a job in the country he served. Odummer is destroying our families.
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Chet Hempstead
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:02pmThe Americans With Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 and signed by President Bush. The most recent amendments were passed in 2008 and signed by his son. Scott Johnson has been filing these suits since 2004. I know it goes against all of your most cherished and deeply held beliefs to accept that there might be problems that can’t be blamed on President Obama, but there really are.
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Fubared
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 8:28amChetty getting all uber mathy. You go chetty, make all those other libs feel small.
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:13pm…
There are a lot of businesses (restaurants and stores) in my area, that do not comply with the ADA.
Not a single handicapped person has ever whined about them. They just go to the many businesses that do comply with the ADA or roll up to the takeout window, like the guy in this story does.
We are a nation of rules and regulations, designed for the minority of the citizens, instead of the majority. Americans are no longer free. Capitalism is being slaughtered.
We are prisoners of the Government. The very people we employ with our tax dollars.
They are supposed to be working for us, not against us.
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JimCS
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:12pmThank God that place was shut down. It’s blatant disregard for the needs of differently-able people is shameful. Justice has been served. *** Note the heavy sarcasm***
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:25pmHey, what about those non-compliant Ferris Wheel rides, Disney Land’s tea cup rides, roller coasters, and frankly, just about any ride at a county fair, or theme park. Then he can go after those evil rodeo people. With Bush as an example so many people just hate those cowboys don’t they. How about those non compliant bucking horses, and bull rides? Dang, that just opened another loop hole, how about those Urban Cowboy bull rides? Then come the suburban areas with no sidewalks. Geez, I better stop or JZS will show cheering me on, unable to see the sarcasm.
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Uechi
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:10pmAnd people wonder why businesses are leaving California in droves.What California needs is a good earth quake under local and state politicians. I wouldn’t live Commiefornia for any amount of money.
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Zorba53
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:09pmI wonder how many times that Johnson has ever eaten or tried to eat at Ford’s… probably NEVER.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:18pmEaten there? You’re probably right. But, He apparently actively hunts down these businesses for his personal financial gain only.
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TNT75
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:08pmI’m in a wheelchair and this is disgusting! I can’t believe that someone would use their disability for their own personal advantage and run this place out of business. This guy runs around deliberately looking for places to sue and in the process put many people out of jobs when the businesses can’t afford to comply. I hope he goes to Hell. He’s nothing but a cockroach.
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MK-ULTRA
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:06pmI’d have to say this. As we have a right to bear arms as it is enumerated in the law of the land AKA the Constitution I have problems with the ADA.
A piece of legislation is going to be enforced but owners of stores aren’t made to allow people their rights as stated in the Constitution.
All that I’m saying is that your business should first and foremost be made to follow the laws of the land as signed and agreed upon by the individual states.
How can you say that store owners need not observe these rights but they need to observe this legislation?
It makes no sense.
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MK-ULTRA
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:22pmBy continuing to do this they are suborning other public servants to aid in unlawful activities.
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banjarmon
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:05pmADA lawyers are Greedy B a s t a r d s!! They give lawyers a BAD name!!
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:11pmShoot, they are giving bad ambulance chasing lawyers an even worse name.
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shorthanded12
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:50pmwhat about the dam lawyers that turn to be politicians..Clint Eastwood said it best :never thought a lawyer should be President. There all POS..politicians, law enforcement, governments at all levels hide behind lawyers to protect there corruption..this country is doomed if we dont take a BOLD stand against All the dam crooks running this country. And for a disabled lawyer to use his profession and personal dissability for money is nothing more than a Bernie Madoff ponzy scheme but on a smaller scale. PERIOD
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completehorsesense
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:03pmAbsolutely Shameful. May GOD tend to that lawyer! How far have we come? Greed. Destroying each other for money. It used to be we looked out for others. Revelled when others did well. Now all we do is bite and devour and one upmanship. GOD Almighty Help Us.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:02pmI was thinking that there was a grandfather clause for so many of these older buildings. That being said, just how many of the Federal Landmark buildings open to the public via the Parks Service are ADA compliant?
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:54pmWhere are all the quadriplegic access-able gas pumps ?
Even some of them are difficult for the paraplegics.
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woodyee
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 12:58pmAfter reading this, I couldn’t help but picture Johnson in a wheelchair in one of those “over-the-cliff” political commercials…
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:06pmI think that he should take one of those “ADA compliant” white water rafting trips down the Colorado River. Or, an overland tour of the Grand Canyon.
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The-Monk
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:06pmHi RJJ,
I can just can’t see a group of paraplegics, some with Oxygen tanks, on a white water rafting trip on the Colorado River.
Let the lawsuits begin…. : (
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The-Monk
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 3:03pmOops…. Edit
I just can’t see…..
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chips1
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 12:58pmThe ultimate lawsuit would be discrimination against birds because they can fly and people can’t. That would shut down the human race faster than the liberals are doing.
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cookcountypatriot
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 12:55pmwhy cant people in wheel chairs EAT SOMEWHERE ELSE!..it is what it is..and now the people that work at fords cant feed thier familys because of people like YOU!…because for some absurd reason..PROGRESSIVES have made YOU more important than other AMERICANS…this is getting to be old and people are TIRED of the EXPENSENE to keep YOU happy….F U
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TNT75
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:11pmDon’t condemn people in wheelchairs. This guy doesn’t speak for all of us. He’s a fricken cockroach.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 1:40pmTNT75, I hope that he is not denigrating those who are physically confined to a wheel chair. And, I can see many of the things in the ADA affecting the construction of new buildings, and when major upgrades or additions to larger public access buildings occur. But, the law is poorly written when it does not grandfather older buildings, and allows this type of particular activity. If you read a good portion of the ADA and design and build a new structure within these guidelines to the point that you pass inspections. A slick lawyer like this guy can still screw the hell out of you with the right judge. And, I bet he knows which judges and courts are friendly to his activity. Don’t expect the federal government to ever stand up for you even if you have followed their laws, rules, and guidelines to the Nth degree.
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:39pm@ RJJinGadsden
Exactly. These lawyers literally go from business to business deliberately looking for the low laying fruit. When they find one, they pounce. They hurt the business owners and the people with disabilities all at once. It’s non-discriminatory robbery. Everybody loses.
Unfortunately, it’s not just in CA.
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OldGringo
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 2:39pmSounds like it time to light a fire under his wheelchair…with him in it!
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Charlayne
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:29pmI’m in a wheelchair. I go where I can, I don’t go where I can’t. I’ve been in places where the ladies room handicapped stall was in use by non-handicapped people and I’ve been where the stall is too small for my chair. I manage. There are ways to do this without making such a huge fuss and getting into court battles. ADA was there to protect us from those who just don’t care, not to be a tool to live on suing others. This lawyer is a parasite and should find another line of work!
Like my husband often says, instead of socializing medical services, we should have socialized legal services first. That makes MUCH more sense.
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