In a ruling that strictly construes the standing requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal judge has dismissed a suit the owners of an office building brought by a company that claims it was forced to move and was later unable to find any tenants to sublet its office space because the building was not accessible to the handicapped.
In W.G. Nichols Inc. v. Ferguson, PICS Case No. 02-0878 (E.D. Pa. June 6, 2002) Yohn, J. (38 pages), U.S. Eastern District Judge William H. Yohn Jr. found that Title III of the ADA grants “rights only to disabled individuals and entities that have a known association or relationship with an individual with a known disability.”
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