Accessibility lawsuits

Last Friday, I blogged about a story about local merechants and lawsuits against them  that was going to run last Monday. Well, the local fires here bumped that story; so we'll try again. This time it's supposed to run Monday.

And here's the same promo I wrote last week:

A number of merchants at the Whittier Boulevard-Broadway intersection are crying foul over several lawsuits a San Diego attorney has brought against them over disability issues.

Are the merchants right in saying the lawsuits are an attempt to hold them up for money or are the attorneys and plaintiffs correct in saying these businesses needed to make their locations more accessible? Read the story and you can decide.