- July 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
ALAMEDA (KPIX) — Mark Rogers, owner of Lola’s on Park Street in Alameda, didn’t realize there had been an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit filed against him until some unexpected mail began arriving.
“I started to receive letters from attorneys offering to help me with an ADA lawsuit,” Rogers told KPIX.
Rogers was one of dozens of business owners along Park Street hit with an ADA lawsuit recently, all from one plaintiff: Orlando Garcia. If that name rings a bell, it’s the same person behind over a thousand similar ADA complaints in San Francisco’s Chinatown and on Irving Street in the city’s Sunset District.
Across Park Street, Colin Cross of Lauren’s Closet got a similar notice.
“We started reading the complaints and they are a carbon copy of each other,” Cross said.
The suit asserts that Lauren’s Closet, a children’s consignment store, had unlawful barriers that prevented entry.
“I looked and I checked, the door is…
