Tampa Strip Clubs: ADA proving divisive for Ybor businesses
August 20, 2010When Congress enacted the ADA, it didn’t assign regulators to enforce the law. Instead, it allowed individuals to sue, and their lawyers to seek fees, breeding what one federal judge described as a cottage industry, “an explosion of private ADA litigation.”
Ybor City restaurants and cigar stores are among the latest targets of lawsuits filed by Kendrick Duldulao, a doctor in the spinal cord injury center at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital.
Duldulao, who uses a wheelchair, has teamed with a South Florida lawyer to paper Tampa businesses with lawsuits alleging violations ranging from inadequate handicapped parking and narrow doors to bars and counters that are too high.
The lawsuits have been served on Tampa landmarks such as the Mons Venus strip club and Bern’s Steak House, as well as convenience stores and take-out Chinese and pizza places.
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