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Big theater chain to make seats more accessible

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2001 | 11:19 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- United Artists Theater Circuit Inc., the sixth-largest U.S. movie house chain, has agreed to settle a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit by making its stadium-style theaters more accessible to the disabled, the department said.

The proposed settlement is the first voluntary agreement to address stadium-style seating accessibility in a nationwide movie chain, the department said.

The agreement, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, requires the theater chain to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act by making the stadium-style seating accessible to people in wheelchairs.

"Persons with disabilities should not be segregated into the worst seats in the house, but instead should have access to seats of comparable quality to those of other patrons," Bill Lann Lee, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in a statement. "Now the experience offered to people with disabilities will not longer be second-best."

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