National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corp.
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National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corporation, 452 F. Supp. 2d 946 (N.D. Cal. 2006), was a class action lawsuit in the United States that was filed on February 7, 2006, in the Superior Court of California for the County of Alameda, and subsequently moved to federal court (the district court for the northern district of California).[1] The case challenged whether the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, specifically Title III's provisions prohibiting discrimination by "places of public accommodation" (42 U.S.C. 12181 et seq), apply to websites and/or the Internet, or are restricted to physical places.
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Court | United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Full case name | National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corporation |
Decided | September 6, 2006 |
Docket nos. | 3:06-cv-01802 |
Citation(s) | 452 F. Supp. 2d 946 |
Case history | |
Subsequent action(s) | Class certified, 582 F. Supp. 2d 1185 (N.D. Cal. 2007). |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Marilyn Hall Patel |
The plaintiff, National Federation of the Blind (NFB), sued Target Corporation, a national retail chain, claiming that blind people were unable to access much of the information on the defendant's website, nor purchase anything from its website independently.[2] In August 2008, the NFB and Target reached a class action settlement.