Attorney, Bruce May, is featured is featured in AZCentral, online.Read the full article: Tax break on apartment complex causes $5.6 million headache for Tempe
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Hotels Sued For Violating ADA Online Reservation Policies
ADA plaintiffs have often targeted the hotel industry and Theresa Brooke’s latest round of lawsuits is no different. This time, she is suing hotels over their online reservation policies.
The Department of Justice issued regulations relating to hotel reservation policies that went into effect in March 2012. 28 CFR § 26.302(e) provides that, among other things, hotels must:
– modify their policies and practices to allow individuals with disabilities the opportunity to reserve accessible rooms in the same manner as individuals who do not need accessible rooms;
– describe accessible features in the guest rooms so persons with
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ADA Plaintiff Theresa Brooke Sues Hotels Over Online Reservation Policies
By: Lindsay Leavitt Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C.Theresa Brooke has returned to Arizona and has found a new way to sue hotels for ADA violations. Arizona hotel owners will remember Theresa Brooke—in 2015 she sued more than 125 of them for failing to install wheelchair accessible pool lifts.Theresa Brooke, an Arizona resident, is now filing lawsuits in the U.S. District Court of Arizona against out-of-state hotels alleging that their online reservation policies violate the ADA. More specifically, she claims that as a disabled woman she should be able to reserve a wheelchair accessible room online.Federal regulations require public
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Serial ADA Plaintiff Theresa Brooke Returns to Arizona
By: Lindsay Leavitt Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C.Serial plaintiff Theresa Brooke is back in Arizona filing more ADA accessibility lawsuits. Arizona hotel owners will remember that it was Theresa Brooke who, in 2015, opened the floodgates of accessibility lawsuits—she personally sued more than 100 hotels for failing to install wheelchair accessible pool lifts. For the past eighteen months she and her counsel, Peter K. Strojnik, have been touring California filing hundreds of “pool lift” lawsuits. She ran into problems, however, when California courts questioned her standing to file her lawsuits because she never actually visited the hotels (and
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New Proposed Rules for Arizona Sick Leave Requirements
By: Otto S. Shill, III, Attorney, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C.
Late last week, the Arizona Industrial Commission (the “Commission”) issued a Notice of Supplemental Proposed Rulemaking, adding proposed regulations that clarify several issues under Arizona’s new paid sick leave requirements. Below are summaries of the most significant proposed rules:
Paid Time Off (PTO) policies do not need to distinguish between sick leave and other leave.
The new proposed regulations provide that when an employee has used available equivalent PTO for either sick leave or other reasons, “the employer may count the usage towards the amount of earned paid
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Jennings, Strouss & Salmon Ranked Among “Top Companies to Work for in Arizona”
PHOENIX, Ariz. (June 30, 2017) – Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C., a leading Phoenix-based law firm, announced it has earned a spot among the azcentral.com “Top Companies to work for in Arizona 2017.” The firm ranked #2 out of 32 in the medium-sized company category of 100-999 employees.
Republic Media, The Arizona Republic, and azcentral.com partnered with Best Companies Group (BCG) and BestCompaniesAZ to produce the fifth annual azcentral.com “Top Companies to Work for in Arizona” program. The methodology for selecting the top companies included a confidential 76-question Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey that evaluated company culture and individual employee’s
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The Bystander Effect
Jennings, Strouss & Salmon attorney and Maricopa County Bar Association president, Norma C. Izzo, was featured in the June 2017 issue of Maricopa Lawyer, the official publication of the Maricopa County Bar Association.Read the full article: The Bystander Effect______________________________________________________________________
Ms. Izzo is Chair of the firm’s Family Law and Domestic Relations Department. She concentrates her practice in the area of family law and domestic relations matters, including collaborative divorce, mediation, arbitration, parent coordination, custody and child support. She perceives practicing in the area of family law as a three dimensional experience: legal, financial and emotional.Ms. Izzo serves as President of
FERC Sets Agenda for Technical Conference on Natural Gas Index Liquidity and Transparency
On June 29, 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will hold a technical conference to discuss liquidity in the natural gas markets and what, if anything, the industry or FERC can do to increase transparency and robustness in natural gas price formation.The day-long conference will feature three stakeholder panels. The first panel, featuring publishers of natural gas newsletters, will examine the current state of natural gas indices, the degree of industry reliance on index-based contracts rather than fixed-price contracts, and whether natural gas indices accurately reflect market conditions. Since 2008, there has been a steady decrease in fixed price
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Getting Ready for July 1st: Arizona’s Sick Leave Rules Become Effective
For more than 30 years, Mr. Shill has helped businesses and business owners comply with government regulations, navigate government investigations, and build wealth through business transactions and long-term planning. He has significant experience in federal and state tax compliance and tax controversies; compensation, benefits, and employment regulation; and government contracting compliance and disputes.
By: Otto S. Shill, IIIArizona’s new voter-approved law, ARS Sec. 23-371 et. seq., gives virtually every employee in the State the right to 24 or 40 hours per year of paid sick leave (depending on the size of the employer). Employers have just under 30 days
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