Major Fail

[aquinasprime]

A condo board in Staten Island is fighting a mother who wants to install a wheelchair lift for her 4 year old daughter. There are so many things wrong with this that I'm not sure where to begin. Even worse, though, are the commenters on the article who are telling her to move because the condo has rules and she should just get over it.

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[amadi]

What's interesting about this is that amongst other groups that magically don't have to conform to federal law, there have been court cases exempting homeowners' associations from the ADA. I'm not sure if a condo board is the same as a homeowners' association but there is some precedent supporting this type of ridamndiculous discrimination.

What this means, in practice, is that they could get away with this, even though the backyard that the mother objects to (because of snow removal) as an alternative location isn't actually accessible either.