{"id":929,"date":"2021-04-20T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/?p=929"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T18:57:27","slug":"court-holds-websites-are-not-places-of-public-accommodation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2021\/04\/20\/court-holds-websites-are-not-places-of-public-accommodation\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Holds \u201cWebsites Are Not Places of Public Accommodation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over two years after hearing oral arguments, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals finally issued an\u00a0opinion\u00a0in\u00a0<i>Gil v. Winn-Dixie,<\/i>\u00a0Case No. 17-13467,<b>\u00a0<\/b>overturning the\u00a0Florida federal district court\u2019s\u00a0finding that the grocery store chain violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by having an inaccessible website. In the 67-page decision, the Court of Appeals held that \u201cwebsites are not places of public accommodation\u201d under the ADA and that the Winn-Dixie website was not an \u201cintangible barrier\u201d to goods, services, privileges and advantages of Winn-Dixie\u2019s physical stores.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em>\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/appeals_court_finds_grocers_website_did_not_violate_americans_disabilities_act_0421.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duane Morris LLP website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over two years after hearing oral arguments, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals finally issued an\u00a0opinion\u00a0in\u00a0Gil v. Winn-Dixie,\u00a0Case No. 17-13467,\u00a0overturning the\u00a0Florida federal district court\u2019s\u00a0finding that the grocery store chain violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by having an inaccessible website. In the 67-page decision, the Court of Appeals held that \u201cwebsites &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2021\/04\/20\/court-holds-websites-are-not-places-of-public-accommodation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Court Holds \u201cWebsites Are Not Places of Public Accommodation\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[846,843,1035,433],"ppma_author":[878],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotechtelecom","tag-ada","tag-colin-knisely","tag-michael-s-zullo","tag-website"],"authors":[{"term_id":878,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}