Comments on: North Beach Block Threatened by ADA Suits

By: San Francisco’s North Beach, curbed

San Francisco’s North Beach, curbed — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:24:21 +0000

[...] Many small businesses in the historic and much-visited neighborhood have been hit with ADA complaints, often from the law offices of famed serial ADA filer Thomas Frankovich. (Carol Lloyd, “Surreal estate: ADA accessibility lawsuits causing headaches for small business owners”, San Francisco Chronicle, Jun. 13). “I’ve seen the ADA racket threaten businesses in other towns, and they ended up closing. The owner [of a small chocolate shop that has now laid off three workers] has never gotten a formal complaint from a wheelchair-bound person, except for this suit.” (”SF_Anna”, “North Beach Block Threatened by ADA Suits”, MetBlogs, Aug. 20). [...]

By: deano

deano — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:15:54 +0000

I live in North Beach. The block in question is very definitely a Mom ‘n’ Pop business block. Perhaps it’s time to take a hard legal look at the serial suitor, a well-known plaintiff who seems to have a racket going here. It seems right to talk about RICO — anti-racketeering legislation. This is a shakedown and in no way promotes the disabled. If anything, it hurts everyone. Where is the North Beach Chamber of Commerce on this? Mr. Peskin?
Being disabled isn’t a blank check on wheels. Sorry to offend, but I’d like to use the businesses in my neighborhood and not see them shaken down by this guy.

By: njudah

njudah — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:58:17 +0000

This is why I hate progressives so much now. They could really help local biz and help so that everyone wins, and these sleazeball lawyers would be out of business. But they don’t care, and I don’t see Aaron Peskin helping out, so once again everyone in SF leaves the hard working people high and dry.