Source: https://www.athleticbusiness.com/, December 2017
By: Kristi Schoepfer-Bochicchio
The Americans with Disabilities Act became law in 1990. It prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including all places open to the general public. Levi’s Stadium opened as the home of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers in 2014, and today ranks as the fourth most expensive venue in the league at a cost of $1.3 billion.
Considered state of the art in many ways at the time of its debut, Levi’s Stadium has since been accused of significant accessibility shortcomings by one individual with disabilities and his wife in Abdul Nevarez v. Forty Niners Football Company LLC, case number 5:16-cv-07013, filed last December in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Read more.