[Nfbf-l] FW: [fcb-l] Fw: [leadership] Blind Louisiana Man Sues McDonald's for Refusing Him Drive-Thru Service

[Matt Roberts]

The restaurant was closed! He would not have had any success if he found the door. The article points out they don't serve anyone who walks up to the drive-through, so he is not being singled out because he's blind. This is crazy, and we don't need treatment like this, as someone else already pointed out.

Matt Roberts

n9gmr at me.com

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> On Jun 2, 2016, at 7:08 PM, Joanne King via Nfbf-l <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> First of all they don't serve walk ups.  Secondly, a friend of mine who is
> sighted went up to the drive through window  and she wasn't served either.
> So, he wasn't served just because he is blind.  
> I hope McDonalds don't pay.  The blind doesn't need special services like
> that.  If he found the window, why didn't he find the door.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Nfbf-l] FW: [fcb-l] Fw: [leadership] Blind Louisiana Man Sues
> McDonald's for Refusing Him Drive-Thru Service
> 
> Interesting 
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: Christopher Bell via leadership  <leadership at acblists.org>
> To: "leadership at acblists. org"  <leadership at acblists.org>
> Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016 5:28 am
> Subject: [leadership] Blind Louisiana Man Sues McDonald's for Refusing Him
> Drive-Thru Service
> 
> 
> Blind Louisiana Man Sues McDonald's for Refusing Him Drive-Thru Service
> 
> byALEX JOHNSON
> 
> McDonald's has until mid-June to respond to a federal lawsuit accusing it
> of discrimination for refusing to serve blind customers who walk up during
> late-night
> hours when only the drive-thru window is open.
> 
> The plaintiff, Scott Magee of Metairie, Louisiana, said in court documents
> filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago that he was laughed at and turned
> away
> from the drive-thru window at a McDonald's in the New Orleans suburb late
> at night last August. It wasn't the first time that had happened, Magee
> alleged.
> 
> Many McDonald's restaurants nationwide continue service through their
> drive-thru windows late at night after the main restaurant entrance has
> closed.
> 
> group start The drive-thru window at a McDonald's restaurant in
> Springfield, Illinois. AP -- file 
> IMAGE: McDonald's drive-thru The drive-thru window at a McDonald's
> restaurant in Springfield, Illinois.AP -- file
> group end
> 
> But the company's policy is not to serve pedestrians at the drive-thru, and
> blind customers can't drive, so they're effectively barred from patronizing
> the world's largest fast food chain by revenue, according to the suit,
> which seeks class-action status for all blind Americans who may have had
> difficulty
> ordering at McDonald's.
> 
> "While McDonald's sighted customers can independently browse, select, and
> pay for products at Defendant's drive-thrus without the assistance of
> others,
> blind people must hope for a companion with a car or paid taxi services to
> assist them in selecting and purchasing McDonald's food," according to the
> suit.
> 
> The suit says it wouldn't take much for the company to make its drive-thru
> windows work for blind people, "given the sophistication and size of
> McDonald's
> Corporation as well as the advanced technological society in which we live
> today."
> 
> After all, the chain recently managed to start providing all-day breakfast,
> "to the awe of McDonald's aficionados everywhere," it says.
> 
> The suit seeks a jury trial on its demands for "modest accommodations" to
> make its services available to the blind at all times, a formal declaration
> that
> McDonald's violated the Americans With Disabilities Act and unspecified
> court costs and attorneys' fees.
> 
> Senior U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gottschall gave McDonald's until June 17
> to respond.
> 
> The company's corporate office in Oak Brook, Illinois, said that as a
> matter of policy, "we do not comment on pending litigation."
> 
> 
> 
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