Roy Rios, et Al. v. Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc.
Filed
Case details
Summary
On March 25, 2020, Roy Rios Luis Licea filed a Complaint in California State court against Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc. . Plaintiff Roy Rios Luis Licea alleges that www.rawlings.com AND www.worthsports.com is not accessible per the WCAG 2.0 accessibility standard(s).
About the defendant
Rawlings is an American sports equipment manufacturing company
What the complaint says
The problems the plaintiff describes with the website.
- Empty or missing form labels
- Empty links that contain no text causing the function or purpose of the link to not be presented to the user.
- Missing form label
- Broken ARIA references
Legal claims
The laws the plaintiff says the defendant broke, called causes of action.
- Violations of the Unruh Civil Rights Act, California Civil Code § 51 et seq.
What the plaintiff asks for
What the plaintiff wants the court to order.
- For a judgment that Defendant violated Plaintiffs’ rights under the Unruh Civil Rights Act, California Civil Code § 51 et seq.
- For a preliminary and permanent injunction requiring Defendant to take the steps necessary to make the Websites, https://www.worthsports.com/ and https://www.rawlings.com/, readily accessible to and usable by visually-impaired individuals; but Plaintiffs hereby expressly limit the injunctive relief to require that Defendant expend no more $20,000 as the cost of injunctive relief
- An award of statutory minimum damages of $4,000 per violation pursuant to section 52(a) of the California Civil Code; however, Plaintiffs expressly limit the total amount of recovery, including statutory damages, attorneys’ fees and costs, and cost of injunctive relief not to exceed $74,999
- For attorneys’ fees and expenses pursuant to all applicable laws including, without limitation, California Civil Code § 52(a); however, Plaintiffs expressly limit the total amount of recovery, including statutory damages, attorneys’ fees and costs, and cost of injunctive relief not to exceed $74,999
- For pre-judgment interest to the extent permitted by law
- For costs of suit
- For such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper.