Los Angeles and San Francisco want a California appeals court to revive a lawsuit alleging a law firm engaged in a small business shakedown by filing thousands of disability access lawsuits, prosecutors said Thursday.
A San Francisco Superior Court judge dismissed with prejudice the city district attorneys’ lawsuit alleging Potter Handy LLP abused California civil rights law and violated the state unfair business practices act by filing thousands of boilerplate lawsuits. The firm uses repeat filers claiming they were denied access in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the state civil rights law known as the Unruh Act. ...
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