Bowen v. Chenoa-Hignite Coal Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a retail website falls into one of the \public accommodation\ categories is bound by Title III
• holding that a website must comply with the ADA if it falls within any of the general categories of public accommodations listed in the ADA
• holding that Scribd’s website, which allows consumers to access a digital library for a monthly fee, is a place of public accommodation even though it is not associated with any physical location
• noting that Sears continued offering “many [other] specialty catalogs” after that point
• noting that the plaintiffs alleged that they were blind and that the web service at issue was not programmed to be accessible to screen reading software, which would “convert graphical information . . . into audio or Braille formats”
• noting that the nexus test would arguably permit a company to “freely refuse to sell its goods or services to a disabled person as long as it did so online rather than within the confines of a physical office or store”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).