SACRAMENTO – A Vallejo hotel is alleged to have architectural barriers that interfere with a wheelchair user's ability to access the facility.
Cleveland Vickers filed a complaint on Sept. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against Anil Kumar Patel, Sunita A. Patel and Vallejo Hospitality LLC, doing business as Ramada Vallejo, over alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Unruh Act.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff uses a wheelchair and defined as physically disabled by state and federal law. He alleges on May 4, he visited the defendants' facility to stay and claims he encountered barriers that interfered with and denied him ability to use and enjoy the goods, services, privileges and accommodations offered at the facility.
The plaintiff alleges the defendant's facility has an improperly configured and dangerous curb ramp.
The plaintiff holds Anil Kumar Patel, Sunita A. Patel and Vallejo Hospitality LLC responsible because the defendants allegedly failed to remove architectural barriers when the removal is readily achievable.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks injunctive relief, preventive relief, statutory minimum damages, attorneys' fees, litigation expenses, costs of suit, interest, and for such other and further relief as the court deems proper. He is represented by Zachary M. Best of Mission Law Firm APC in San Jose.
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California case number 2:18-cv-02446-JAM-DB