Citing “well-pled allegations” by prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles, a federal judge has imposed additional evidentiary requirements on the law firm Potter Handy in at least 35 lawsuits alleging Americans with Disabilities Act violations.

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California. (ALM photo)

The firm must detail their clients’ plans to return to the businesses they accuse of not being accessible to them as people with disabilities, and they “must substantiate, in detail, the allegations that the plaintiff visited the establishment in the first place,” according to an order U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California entered this week in nearly every open ADA case assigned to him that involves Potter Handy.