PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit between a wheelchair-bound Florida man and a Frankford Avenue business in Philadelphia over alleged barriers preventing him from shopping there in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been settled.
Plaintiff Owen Harty first filed a complaint on Nov. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against North City Development Co., alleging violation of the ADA.
The suit explained the defendant owns Shelley’s Plaza. Harty, who is a tester for civil rights monitoring of ADA compliance, claimed he “has encountered architectural barriers at the subject property which discriminate against him on the basis of his disability and have endangered his safety.”