09-01-2021, 04:03 PM
Lemon Drop wrote:
I think there was a thread on this earlier, but how does a completely unrelated party have grounds to sue?
The only similar thing that comes to mind is that we used to have a lawyer around here that would troll around and look for businesses that were (sometimes minimally) out of compliance with the Americans with disabilities act in terms of entries to their businesses, etc. He would then contact these businesses and threaten to raise an ADA lawsuit against them, unless they essentially paid him off. (He wasn’t disabled).
As I recall, this guy eventually ended up in jail for other questionable stuff.
Edit: Here it is. He didn’t end up in jail, but was suspended, fined (minimally), and reprimanded. And apparently he hired a raft of (disabled?) folks that he would file the suit for, and then split the money with him.
Anyway, the Texas law would bring this kind of thing, on steroids.