More than 11,000 Americans with Disabilities Act Title III—or private entity access—lawsuits were launched in the federal courts in 2019, setting a record for the number of Title III lawsuits lodged nationally in a year since the law firm Seyfarth Shaw began compiling the data about seven years ago.
New York state set its own statewide record with its number of suits, accounting for 2,635 of the 11,053 suits nationwide, Seyfarth reports. New York was second only to California’s 4,794 Title III federal actions, which was a record yearly amount in the Golden State.