Legal Question in Disability Law in California
Sign language Interpreters
Last year I bought tickets for my (hearing) wife and I to the Eagles concert at the Indian Wells (CA) Tennis Garden. I am deaf (not hard-of-hearing) and requested seats closer to the stage so I can lip-read the singers and feel the music vibrations.
(In the past, at venues such as Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim and the Sports Arena in San Diego, they place the deaf closer to the stage so they can lip-read the performers and/or feel the music vibrations).
In my emails back and forth with the Tennis Garden, they refused to relocate me as requested, even though the venue is at least partially owned by the City of Indian Wells.
I just gave up and went to the concert, forced to sit far from the stage where I got little enjoyment.
The Who is now playing at the same venue, and I wrote them requesting seating for the hearing-impaired and a sign-language interpreter. They wrote me back just this morning saying they can move me to where ''listening devices'' are available (as you know, these devices only help the hard-of-hearing and not the profoundly deaf such as myself). They also refused to provide me with an interpreter.
Do I have a case?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Sign language Interpreters
Do you have a case? Only if you can convince a jury that they were required by law to 'reasonably accommodate' you [which they were], and to do so by providing premium seats at a concert [which is quite an argument, but at least somewhat reasonable]. If you are serious about pursuing such legal action, feel free to contact me.
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