April 11, 2022
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Boudin, Gascón accuse law firm of targeting immigrant-run businesses with fraudulent disability suits - San Francisco Chronicle

Amanda Yan, owner of Hon's Wun-Tun House, adjusts a chair at an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant table outside the restaurant in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco on April 7, 2022. Hon’s Wun-Tun House was sued by plaintiffs alleging a lack of wheelchair access to outdoor dining surfaces in April 2021, even though the restaurant served only takeout orders at that time, according to a lawsuit filed by the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles on Monday.
Amanda Yan, owner of Hon's Wun-Tun House, adjusts a chair at an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant table outside the restaurant in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco on April 7, 2022. Hon’s Wun-Tun House was sued by plaintiffs alleging a lack of wheelchair access to outdoor dining surfaces in April 2021, even though the restaurant served only takeout orders at that time, according to a lawsuit filed by the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles on Monday.

Accusing a law firm of fleecing small businesses in California with thousands of baseless disability-rights suits, the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles asked a judge Monday to halt the practice and order the firm to refund millions of dollars the businesses paid to settle the suits.

For years, the firm, Potter Handy of San Diego, has been “bombarding California’s small businesses with abusive, boilerplate lawsuits,” District Attorney Chesa Boudin and his Los Angeles County counterpart, George Gascón, said in a suit in San Francisco Superior Court.



source: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Boudin-Gasc-n-accuse-law-firm-of-targeting-17073120.php

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