If you think you�ve got a stressful life, be glad you�re not Warren Lloyd. As the Philadelphia Inquirer reported in August, Lloyd has sued Casey�s Restaurant and Saloon in the Philly suburb of Drexel Hill under the Americans with Disabilities Act, complaining of the dire emotional distress he suffered when he discovered that the business lacked adequate parking for his wheelchair van and that its restrooms were not fully wheelchair-accessible. And that is by no means the only trauma Lloyd�s psyche has recently weathered: over the past several months, he has sued more than 30 other eating and drinking establishments throughout the Philadelphia area after stressfully finding that their facilities, too, failed to comply with various ADA requirements.
Many of the restaurant owners were astonished by Lloyd�s suits�and felt ambushed by them. Neither he nor any other disabled person, they note, ever complained before about their facilities�which in some cases they had already renovated for handicapped accessibility. And when the owners sought to settle Lloyd�s complaints, one demand invariably rose to the top of the agenda: that they pay thousands in attorneys� fees to his counsel, Brodsky & Smith.
Details here from Walter K. Olson (of Overlawyered.com fame) via City-Journal.org.