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New Lawsuit Says State Denies Equal Access for Disabled State Workers

State employee of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) Jill Babcock has filed suit against the State of Michigan (Michigan) and the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) to stop them from denying state workers with disabilities access to Cadillac Place in Detroit.

Babcock, a resident of Farmington Hills who is disabled due to Friedrich’s Ataxia, a disease that progressively damages the nervous system, is confined to a wheelchair. She says she must take the bus each day because of the lack of available handicap parking and can barely make it into the building because ramps to the handicap entrances are too steep for her wheelchair. She faces further difficulties inside the building, which she says forces her to be dependent on others for assistance.

Cadillac Place, the former General Motors headquarters on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit’s New Center area, underwent one of the nation’s largest historic renovations in 2002. These renovations require the building to meet accessibility standards as outlined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The suit outlines some of the following ADA compliance failures:

Inadequate parking for disabled patrons
Obstructed curb ramps
Inaccessible building entrances, where ramps are too steep
Inaccessible elevators, doorways, hallways and bathrooms

On July 10, 2012, Attorney Richard Bernstein, of The Sam Bernstein Law Firm in Farmington Hills, filed the lawsuit in United States District Court in Detroit. The suit seeks to bring an end to the Michigan and the MSF’s failure to comply with the ADA, denying equal access to disabled employees at Cadillac Place.

Babcock is not seeking monetary damages at this time, just that an end is brought to the discrimination of disabled patrons at Cadillac Place by making the facility ADA compliant.

Babcock-vs-State of Michigan and Michigan Strategic Fund lawsuit

Click here to download the Complaint filed on July 10, 2012 in Babcock vs. State of Michigan and Michigan Strategic Fund

Click here for more information about attorney Richard Bernstein.

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