| Law Firm Which Sued
Wrong Defendant For Website Under ADA Is
Reminded of Rule 11
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 8 – The Hackensack, New
Jersey based law firm of Stein
Saks, PLLC sued Waittcorp
Investments, LLC about the
lack of accessibility to blind
people of a website,
bobbyjones.c3style.com.
But
Waittcorp showed them that it
no longer invested in, or had
any connection to, the firm
Waitt Brands, which sold its
interest in the website three
years ago. Then Waittcorp
asked for a conference, prior
to mediation.
On
September 9, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Gregory H. Woods held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Judge
Woods asked the plaintiff's
lawyer how he wished to
proceed.
The answer was to
amend the complaint adding an
additional party, then after
that to move to drop
Waittcorp.
Judge Woods
reminded that Rule 11 applies,
to naming Waittcorp again in
an amended complaint.
The plaintiff's
lawyer asked for him but Judge
Woods reminded that it was a
simple issue, raised by letter
into the docket a week before.
The
plaintiff's lawyer began to
say that he saw that Judge
Woods did not favor - then got
cut off. Judge Woods
emphasized he was not telling
the lawyer how to proceed,
only reminding him that Rule
11 applied.
The lawyer
said he will file to dismiss
the complaint later in the
case.
The case is
Williams v. Waittcorp
Investments, LLC, 20-cv-4395
(Woods).
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