Plaintiff
- Name: John Panarese Roy Rios
- Filing date: May 29, 2019
- State of filing: New York
Defendant
- Name: J. Cat Beauty Enterprise, LLC
- Website: www.jcatbeauty.com
- Industry: Beauty
- Summary: J. Cat Beauty Enterprise, LLC is a retailer of affordable and luxurious beauty products.
Case Summary
On May 29, 2019, John Panarese Roy Rios filed a Complaint in New York Federal court against J. Cat Beauty Enterprise, LLC . Plaintiff John Panarese Roy Rios alleges that www.jcatbeauty.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 which presented a problem because if a form control does not have a properly associated text label
- Empty links that contain no text causing the function or purpose of the link to not be presented to the user.
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, jcatbeauty.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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