[Husker] Lawsuit accuses UNL of using handicapped parking spots for tailgating during football season

[Aaron Wolfson]

I agree, Kathy, but I'd expand your statement to say that lots of people
don't understand others with disabilities at all (like, for instance, why
the ADA is important).

Aaron


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Richard Wessel <da_huskers at cox.net> wrote:

> Totally agree with you on this one.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Jackson <kj60028 at windstream.net>
> Sender: husker-bounces at tssi.com
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:11:39
> To: <husker at tssi.com>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Lawsuit accuses UNL of using handicapped parking
> spots
>         for tailgating during football season
>
> Reading the comments at the article site makes me despair.  I don't care
> when the guy wants to use the handicapped space he has a right to.  Sounds
> like he worked to avoid a lawsuit but promises were not kept.  Lots of
> businesses and people in general don't understand the provisions of the ADA
> and this is not the first time a lawsuit has been needed to make people
> understand that this is serious.
>
> IMO everyone should be grateful they don't need to use the handicapped
> stalls AND grateful they are there if they ever need to in the future.  I
> know I am.
>
> Kathy Jackson
> On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Patrick Gaule wrote:
>
> > On 9/14/2012 10:33 AM, Lavarus Meechum wrote:
> >> I expect, as with most stories, there are two sides to this.  Or maybe
> someone at the U simply dropped the ball.  Too bad it had to come to a
> lawsuit.
> >
> > It sounds like UNL wrote a letter to the defendant and said they would
> stop this practice.  Allegedly, UNL didn't follow through with that promise
> and that's when the lawsuit was filed.  There are two sides to every story,
> but if that part is true, then it sounds like UNL dropped the ball.
> >
> > My guess is that this is something that has gone on for years (long
> before the ADA), and nobody has called them on it until now.  According to
> this page (http://www.unl.edu/equity/dservices.shtml), UNL has an ADA
> Compliance Officer on staff.  It seems like this is something that she
> should have noticed and corrected long before it came to a lawsuit.
>
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