U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court OKs ADA Lawsuit Ban Against ‘Hit & Run’ Plaintiff & Counsel
Posted Nov 18, 2008, 02:05 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A federal judge's decision to ban a prolific litigant and his counsel from filing any more ADA lawsuits without court permission has effectively been OK'd by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a "legal waterloo" for Jarek Molski and his counsel, Thomas Frankovich, it has refused to hear an appeal from a 2007 decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld the court-approval requirement, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The wheelchair-bound Molski, who filed more than 400 lawsuits under the Americans With Disabilities Act, generally seeking settlements for alleged illegal business conditions, was described as a "hit-and-run plaintiff" by U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie at the time of the… Continue reading...
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