On April 7, 2021, in
Gil v. Winn-Dixie, Case No. 17-13467, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an important decision on whether Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., is violated when a place of public accommodation (there, a grocery store) offers valuable in-store benefits to customers through a website that is inaccessible to individuals with visual disabilities.
The 2-1 panel decision is significant, and is a likely precursor to U.S. Supreme Court review because, among other reasons, it expressly disagrees with and rejects a prior decision by the Ninth Circuit, the only other circuit court to squarely address the issue of whether the ADA applies to websites. The
December 21, 2020
Walter Crafts Jr., 86, of Lewes passed away Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, at Beebe Healthcare in Lewes. He was born Nov. 3, 1934, in Flushing, N.Y., son of the late Walter and Suzanne (Clifton) Crafts.
Walter spent his childhood years in Niagara Falls, N.Y. He attended the DeVeaux School, a military prep school founded in 1852 and administered by the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York. Walter first attended Oberlin College in Ohio, and subsequently received a bachelor of science degree in management and production from Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. While at Babson, he was a member of the Student Government, the Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity, and the Blue Key National Honor Fraternity.