this is a classic ADA shakedown case.
Find a token “expert” some named plaintiff organization.
ONE MILLIMETER off on something and presto you get attorney fees, expert fees (the activist in this case) and move on to the next one.
ADA suits are now a scam for attorney fees.
An unfunded mandate that the feds outsourced to the ambulance class.
I am not the woman referenced, don’t even know her. I’m just an informed reader seeing ignorance and intolerance.
Only a person that is not disabled and cannot envision him or herself nor any of their loved ones being disabled would oppose ADA legislation. I’ve seen what bombs and bullets do to a person, and I imagined what my life would be like after a permanent disabling injury... there is the basis of my anger on this issue. Call it an overactive imagination if you like, or use it as a frame of reference for doing the right thing...
The current state of affairs in the US is that the ADA is one of the most unenforced pieces of legislation in the US because it so often falls into the “too hard to do” category. Taking down “whites only” signs was easy, desegregating schools was easy, allowing women to vote was easy...building a ramp or widening a doorway is too hard to do...even in 19 years.
The ADA is almost 19 years old... For a business anywhere in the US that was functioning to have not made changes to be compliant in the last 18 years means that: a) they are willfully breaking the law, or b) haven’t turned a profit in that time frame (highly unlikely). A business that has started up in the intervening years is negligent for not knowing the law and being compliant, and any agency that grants them a license to do business is likewise negligent from enforcing the law.
This isn’t about the Gettysburg Community or their ignorance. They are just facing one tenacious person that is willing to stand up for her rights in a way that is unsettling to them. This is a National problem that needs to be addressed, and more tenacious people like her are needed to change attitudes.