[blindlaw] nfb v. target

[Steve P. Deeley]

Nope.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] nfb v. target


> Steve,
>
> I think you missed the whole point of what statutory damages are for.
>
> If I am doing something that could cost me $4,000 per person, per
> incident, I'm not very likely to do it am I?  California's lawmakers
> (who arguably spend too much time in the Marijuana clinics if you
> look at some of the hair-brained things they've tried to make law)
> have decided to make the minimum amount of damage be $4,000 so that
> people will not discriminate.  Their thinking was that this was high
> enough to convince them not to do it--or failing that a couple of
> really high profile cases like ours with Target would make people
> think twice.
>
> You can whine about the injustice of a huge cash payout to those
> blind Californians lucky enough to have attempted to use Target's
> website, but the fact remains that the payout is essentially how the
> California government has decided to punish discrimination.
>
> I say good for them.  If discrimination can be proven 36 years after
> the Rehab Act and 18 years after the ADA, then obviously some people
> stubbornly refuse to get the message.
>
> Joseph
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:24:24AM -0400, Steve P. Deeley wrote:
>> That should not result in you receiving damages of almost $4,000.00.
>
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