[blindlaw] Text of a pending complaint

[Steve Jacobson]

Angie,

First year student or not, your observation makes me feel a little better.  Mark, if you are still reading, you don't seem to 
understand that most of us are agreeing with your feelings of frustration and we've been there.  All we are trying to do is 
to figure out where the most likely opportunity for change is.

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:23:40 -0400, Angie Matney wrote:

>Steve asked:

>>Couldn't a hotel claim that a blind person must accept a given room, on the first floor for example, for safety reasons 
countering our right to refuse?  Has that ever 
>>been tested?  

>It probably has happened somewhere. That is similar to the airline personnel refusing to tell me which way to go 
because I might hurt myself if I walked 30 feet on my own. (grin) I don't know of cases about this, but it is interesting. 
Having said that, the case I referred 
>to was much more clear-cut. The person had a liver condition that was going to be exacerbated by the chemicals 
where he wanted to work. I think a hotel would have a hard time proving in court that they *had* to give a blind person 
a room on the first floor for 
>safety reasons. All of that is about a conjectured risk, whereas this case involved a much higher probability of danger.

>Just my first-year law student opinion, not worth much at all. (grin)

>Angie





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