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Deaf Sue Cinemark Chain

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Going to the movies is central part of mainstream American life. More than 200 million Americans went to the movies last year according to the Motion Picture Association of America. But a lawsuit filed today in Alameda Superior Court alleges that the Cinemark movie chain, the third largest in the country, discriminates against the deaf and hard of hearing communities by failing to provide any captioned movies at its theaters in Alameda County.

 

 

The suit is brought by The Association of Late-Deafened Adults (“ALDA”) on behalf of its members with hearing loss, and two individual plaintiffs.  The plaintiffs are represented by Disability Rights Advocates (“DRA”), a non-profit disability rights firm headquartered in Berkeley, California that specializes in high-impact cases on behalf of people with disabilities and John Waldo, a lawyer whose practice focuses on the unique legal needs of the Hard-of-Hearing and Deaf. He works on access and advocacy issues through the Washington Communication Access Project (Wash-CAP), www.hearinglosslaw.com

So begins the press release from Disability Rights Advocates which is available for download here with the complaint that was filed this week in a California Superior Court in Alameda County, California.  

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Download this file (Complaint_Cinemark_v_Association of Late-Deafened Adults.pdf)Complaint_~.pdfComplaint Filed - Cinemark 30 Nov 2010194 Kb
Download this file (Cinemark_v_Association of Late-Deafened Adults_Press_Release.pdf)Cinemark_v~.pdfPress Release v Cinemark 30 Nov 2010120 Kb
 

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