Plaintiff
- Name: John Panarese Roy Rios
- Filing date: May 28, 2019
- State of filing: New York
Defendant
- Name: Crane USA Inc.
- Website: www.crane-usa.com
- Industry: Professional Services
- Summary: Crane USA Inc. is a whole distributor of warm air heating and air-conditioning equipment and supplies.
Case Summary
On May 28, 2019, John Panarese Roy Rios filed a Complaint in New York Federal court against Crane USA Inc. . Plaintiff John Panarese Roy Rios alleges that www.crane-usa.com is not accessible per the WCAG 2.0 accessibility standard(s).
Case Details
Plaintiff alleges issues in its Complaint including the following:
- Linked image missing alternative text
- Empty or missing form labels
- Empty links that contain no text causing the function or purpose of the link to not be presented to the user
- Redundant Links where adjacent links go to the same URL address
Plaintiff asserts the following cause(s) of action in its Complaint:
- Violations of the ADA
- Violations of the NYSHRL
- Violations of the Unruh Civil Rights Act
Plaintiff seeks the following relief by way of its Complaint:
- For a judgment that Defendant violated Plaintiffs’ rights under the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12181 et seq., Plaintiff Panarese’s rights under NYSHRL, N.Y. Exec. Law § 296, et seq., and Plaintiff Rios’s rights under the Unruh Civil Rights Act, California Civil Code § 51 et seq.
- For a preliminary and permanent injunction requiring Defendant to take the steps necessary to make the Website, crane-usa.com, readily accessible to and usable by visuallyimpaired individuals
- For compensatory and/or statutory damages as permitted by law
- For Plaintiffs’ reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs
- For pre-judgment interest to the extent permitted by law
- For such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper
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