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Accessible Seating at U-M Big House a Hit

Detroit Free Press

January 6, 2009

In its first football season since a legal battle over wheelchair-accessible seats was settled, the University of Michigan is reporting that nearly all such seats were sold at Michigan Stadium.

In each of U-M's seven home games, 74% to 89% of the available wheelchair-accessible seats were sold, according to a letter late last month from U-M's general counsel, Gloria Hage, to the U.S. Department of Justice and attorney Richard Bernstein.

Bernstein filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Michigan Paralyzed Veterans in 2007, asking for more wheelchair-accessible seating as part of the ongoing renovation at the Big House. The Department of Justice eventually got involved.

A settlement last year calls for 329 accessible seats, with 329 companion seats, by the 2010 season; so far, there are 184 available pairs in the stadium.

Click here to download the University of Michigan report on the use of wheelchair-accessible seating at UM stadium during the 2008 football season.

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