once again thanks to inclusion dailey com for the following.
>
> ACCESSIBILITY/LAW:
> ***OPENING ARGUMENTS BEGIN IN EASTWOOD TRIAL***
> SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA--Diane zum Brunnen claims that a bathroom and other
> parts of Clint Eastwood's Mission Ranch hotel in Carmel were inaccessible
to
> her and her wheelchair in 1996.
>
> "Obviously I have doubts about that, and that's why I'm here," the
> actor/director told reporters outside the courtroom, as jury selection
began
> yesterday in zum Brunnen's lawsuit against him.
>
> The suit had prompted Eastwood to join a campaign to require people with
> disabilities to notify a business owner that they had violated the
Americans
> with Disabilities Act 90 days prior to filing a complaint. Earlier this
> year, he traveled to Washington, DC, to testify for HR 3590, the proposed
> "ADA Notification Act". Eastwood told the U.S. House Committee on the
> Judiciary that "renegade" lawyers were taking advantage of people with
> disabilities by profiting from bogus ADA claims.
>
> "He had notice -- the notification was the American Disabilities Act and
> that he was supposed to be in compliance by 1992," said John Burris, zum
> Brunnen's attorney.
>
> In this suit, the cost of the work for making the resort ADA compliant was
> estimated at $7,000, but Eastwood has voiced outraged that Burris is
asking
> for $577,000 in fees. When a reporter asked Eastwood why he didn't settle
> before the cost got so high, he replied, "In my opinion, you settle when
> you're wrong."
>
> Young disability rights advocate Kyle Glozier, 13, testified against
> Eastwood and others during the congressional hearings in May. The Mouth
> Magazine has the text of his testimony at:
>
http://www.mouthmag.com/number60/gloziernews.htm
>
> The Hot News Network has the full text of HR 3590, as introduced in
February
> of this year:
>
http://www.dimenet.com/cgi-bin/getlink?hotnews,827R
>
> Here are some steps you can take to oppose the ADA Notification Act:
>
http://www.save-ada.com/stepsto.htm
>
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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