Inaccessible-Website Suit Settled vs. Specialty Pet Foods Company
Plaintiff Ramon Fontanez settled his June 17 complaint against Arrow Reliance on allegations the specialty pet foods company designed and ran a website that wasn't accessible to and independently usable by blind and visually impaired consumers, said a notice Friday…
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(docket 1:22-cv-05098) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York. “A settlement agreement is in the process of being finalized between the parties,” said the notice. Once the agreement is fully executed, and Fontanez receives the “consideration required,” the parties will request that the case be dismissed and closed, it said. It asked the court to stay action and adjourn all deadlines and conferences for 60 days. Settlement terms weren't disclosed. Fontanez, the plaintiff in a similar complaint against the kitchenware website Food52.com, asked U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams in Manhattan in a letter Friday (docket 1:22-cv-09584) to refer the case to mediation while settlement talks continue between the parties. Food52.com requests an initial status conference, said the letter.