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by Pfhreak 2328 days ago
That's a different concern though. 200 lawsuits in and of itself isn't a problem. Pretending to be disabled to try and get standing is.
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OP said it starts to seem opportunistic, which I think is true, even if the party is actually disabled. Because the odds that a regular disabled person would encounter 200 unique buildings over a year that they couldn't access because of their disability seems quite slim.

And the opportunistic part comes in because these lawsuits are almost always "Fix the problem for $5*X, or pay me personally $X and I will drop the suit".

> Because the odds that a regular disabled person would encounter 200 unique buildings over a year that they couldn't access because of their disability seems quite slim.

I would guess the opposite, that 200 buildings seems low for what a person might encounter in a year that failed to be accessible. That's basically saying, "It's a roughly 4-5 buildings a week" which absolutely seems in the realm of possibility to me. Especially in a older part of town.

I don't know if very many people visit 200 unique buildings in a year period, let alone ones with accessibility problems.