Remember the brouhaha over the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch public dissin' of fat women?
Well, it seems that they don't like disabled people, either. A judge in
Colorado is considering forcing Hollister, a clothing company owned by
Abercrombie, to make their stores more accessible to the disabled:
Lawyer
Amy Robertson, who represents the disabled in the lawsuit, compared the
case with the fight against racial segregation in the 1960s.
She
said that in one case, Julie Farrar, who is confined to a wheelchair,
had trouble when she tried to go with her daughter through a side door
of one the Colorado stores because there was no access to the front
door. She and several other disabled patrons filed a lawsuit in 2009.
[...]
The stores put signs on the sides of the doors, one for
"Dudes" and the other for "Bettys," and argued that they were complying
with federal regulations because the side doors were accessible to the
able-bodied and disabled alike, Robertson said.
"In the Jim Crow
era, you had a white entrance and a colored entrance off to the side.
These stores put up signs for Dudes and Bettys and called it
integrated," she said Wednesday.
Abercrombie's
lawyers argue that changing the elevated entrance to the stores would
cause "immense ... loss in sales and revenue" and "permanent damage to
the Hollister brand."
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