Netflix and its lawyers at Morrison & Foerster have lost in an early bid to fend off claims that the company is shirking its obligations to deaf subscribers and violating federal law.
On Tuesday, rejecting Netflix’s arguments that it doesn’t need to provide closed captioning for videos that it streams online, a federal judge in Springfield, Mass., refused to toss an Americans with Disabilities Act suit brought by a deaf man and state and national nonprofits. U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor of the District of Massachusetts denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings, finding that the plaintiffs had sufficiently alleged claims under the ADA for the suit to move forward.
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