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Strip resort appealing ADA order to correct violations

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 | 11:04 a.m.

The Stratosphere resort on the Las Vegas Strip is appealing a March court order that forces the hotel-casino to correct alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by retrofitting 532 of its 2,444 rooms with 32-inch interior bathroom doorways within 20 weeks.

Disabled Rights Action Committee member Tamara Thompson, who is a wheelchair user, sued the hotel-casino in U.S. District Court, alleging guests with disabilities don't have a choice of sleeping accommodations and bathroom facilities that are accessible to the disabled.

But Stratosphere denied it violated ADA regulations and challenged Thompson's claims as moot and lacking standing because it has completed retrofitting a number of the 532 rooms that were built after enactment of the ADA.

Stratosphere, in its appeal to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, questioned whether DRAC and Thompson have standing to file an action under ADA and whether they demonstrated irreparable injury warranting injunctive relief.

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