Court Obscures Line of Sight Requirement in ADA Cases

A federal judge from the Central District of California has adopted a strict interpretation of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12181-12189, granting a race track/defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a case where a wheelchair-bound NASCAR race spectator sued because he could not see over the heads and bodies of ambulatory spectators who stand during the exciting parts of NASCAR races.   The court wrote specifically that while the Department of J