Chicago Cubs Defeat Wrigley Field Wheelchair Accessibility Suit

The Chicago Cubs won dismissal of claims that its historic ballpark, Wrigley Field, lacks the required number of wheelchair-accessible seats and that the accessible seats it has aren’t horizontally dispersed around the stadium.

Plaintiff David Cerda failed to show that Wrigley lacks the 209 seats required to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Wednesday.

Neither the dimensions of the wheelchair spaces, the viewing angles of those seats, nor their distance from general admission seats make them non-complaint with ADA requirements, Alonso said. And ...