Filing 1,500 Suits Doesn’t Impugn ADA Litigant’s Credibility

The owners of a commercial property will face reinstated Americans with Disabilities Act claims over the lack of van-accessible parking for customers because a trial court wrongly discounted the plaintiff’s testimony as a serial litigant.

The trial court improperly focused on plaintiff Chris Langer’s past ADA litigation “to impugn his credibility, expressing doubt that Langer would return” to the allegedly access-impaired Gour Maine Lobster because of the previous lawsuits he filed, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in an opinion written by Judge Ronald M. Gould.

Langer’s intent to visit unrelated places he previously sued ...