forwarded, with thanks to
Dave Reynolds, Editor
Inclusion Daily Express
Disability Rights Email News Service
www.InclusionDaily.com
> TRIAL AGAINST EASTWOOD TO BEGIN
> By Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express
> September 19, 2000
>
> SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA--Jury selection is scheduled to begin in federal
court
> this morning for a lawsuit claiming a resort owned by actor/director Clint
> Eastwood violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
>
> Diane zum Brunnen, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, says
> Eastwood's Mission Ranch hotel in Carmel was inaccessible when she visited
> in 1996. She is asking for damages and for the court to force Eastwood to
> make changes to make the hotel more accessible.
>
> In May of this year, Eastwood argued before the U.S. House Committee on
the
> Judiciary that businesses should be given a 90-day notice before a
> discrimination complaint could be filed based on the ADA. Eastwood was
> defending HR 3590, the proposed "ADA Notification Act", which many
> disability rights advocates say would severely weaken the law.
>
> Zum Brunnen's trial is expected to last about a week. Eastwood is expected
> to testify.
>
Adrian Higginbotham.
SURFACE (Salford University, Research Focus on Accessible Environments).
tel: (44_-161-2953949,
fax (44)-161-2955011,
Email [log in to unmask]
textphone (44)-161-2953599.
web: http://www.scpm.salford.ac.uk/surface/
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