MORE PROOF THAT TORT REFORM NEEDS TO BE A PRIORITY IF WE WANT TO GET THE ECONOMY GROWING AGAIN:
A small cadre of lawyers, some from out of state, are using New York City’s age and architectural quirkiness as the foundation for a flood of lawsuits citing violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
"I think it is tragic that people are angry at the lawyers because they are forcing businesses to comply with a 20-year-old law. It shows how poorly people with disabilities continue to be treated by our society."
The lawyers are generally not acting on existing complaints from people with disabilities. Instead, they identify local businesses, like bagel shops and delis, that are not in compliance with the law, and then aggressively recruit plaintiffs from advocacy groups for people with disabilities.
The plaintiffs typically collect $500 for each suit, and each plaintiff can be used several times over.
The lawyers, meanwhile, make several thousands of dollars, because the civil rights law entitles them to legal fees from the noncompliant businesses.LAWYERS LOOKING TO GET RICH ON LAWSUITS ARE A CHIEF REASON CONGRESS PASSES LAWS LIKE THE ADA.
AND MALICIOUS AVARICIOUS TORTS ARE A MAJOR REASON BUSINESSES HAVE A TOUGH TIME MAKING MONEY.
AND REMEMBER: LAWYERS ARE HUGE PART OF THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE. RIGHT AFTER TEACHERS, AFSCME, SIEU AND THE UAW.
MITT IS NOT A LAWYER.
OBAMA IS. SO IS BIDEN.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
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My apologies, but your very argument is incorrect and improperly based.
While the ADA was not passed as was originally conceived*, unless you understand that and can accept it, you really don't understand how the American system of jurisprudence works. While the way it is being enforced is open to the courts for their interpretation and there are now monetary damages for not being in compliance, it is the law of the land today, applies to all of us, and has been in effect since July 26, 1990.
As currently Amended and toughened, there is greater freedom for Lawsuits to be filed to give the law more "teeth", and greater freedoms for Americans with disabilities. The law really can bite today and the sting can be felt quite strongly, can't it?
I was interviewed on the ACLU Channel in Central Texas (Cable TV) some time ago (it was viewed at that time by some 19,000 Texans) I was told, and then it seemed to go "viral". Portions of it can be found online still (Please Google me by my full name - Mitchell J. Rappaport). It is and was the only interview that I have consented to give publicly so far, and I am all but totally retired due to health concerns today.
Who will win the 2012 election is up to all of the American voters, and the truth is based on the facts, not personal opinions. Are Lawyers getting "wealthy" off of the ADA? I think that is a redundant question; it was never intended for them to do so.
Attorney's get paid when they win lawsuits. The more that are brought, the greater the percentage that they win generally.
The better question to ask Americans with disabilities is if they think that they are being discriminated against even remotely as much as they were before the Act first passed originally? My answer to such a question would be: absolutely not.
I'm not sure what proportion of Attorney's are Democrats, Republicans or Independents - I just know that if we didn't have Laws in this nation that were on the books and were enforceable, we would not have a nation as strong as we are, as principled as we are, or offering all of us as many opportunities today.
Congress did not pass the Law to benefit Lawyers; it is meant to benefit Americans with disabilities. Attorney's make money off of it by helping people with disabilities - and others - to enforce it.
Is this being done at the expense of private enterprise in this nation? Hardly! More and more business owners and Entrepreneurs are benefitting or learning how to benefit by welcoming people with disabilities into their midst, not opposing them.
Jealous of an Attorney's earnings? Try four years of College, two of Law School (or three or five). I'm afraid that there's not an "app" for that yet.
Don't "vote accordingly" - vote what your heart and your mind tell you to do, as well as your common sense - but Vote!
i favor good laws that help folks with disabilities, laws enforced by uniformed government employees that issues fines - and don;t get a commission, but i do not favor laws that empower ambulance chasers - most of whom are dems and are the single largest donors to the dem party - along with goldman sachs types.
consider yourself corrected.
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