No limits for plaintiff in Kmart disability lawsuit
Carrie Ann Lucas has come to terms with the disability that has taken her hearing and her sight and her ability to walk.
“I don’t think my life is unfair,” the 34-year-old mother of two said Tuesday, a day after the announcement of a landmark $13 million settlement in a class-action disability discrimination lawsuit against Kmart in which she was lead plaintiff.
“My disability is part of my identity. What’s unfair is the systems I have to deal with that are supposed to work, and don’t work.”
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She never planned to go to law school, but after working for years with the Cross-Disability Coalition, she said, “It was really my experience seeing the number of violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act, seeing the way people’s rights were being violated, that prompted me to go to law school.”
To be good parents, Lucas said, some of her clients may need different help from the ordinary parenting classes to which social workers commonly refer people. Some are deaf or have cognitive difficulties. Some need housing accessible to people with disabilities. Some need a lawyer who will spend more time explaining legal matters to them.
How do you start a complaint againist the big companies? I have been into Walmart with my 4 wheel scooter and can not get around the corner to access the restroom. Either I have to hold it, go in a cup or wet myself. Managers don’t seem to care. At Home Depot, they are always putting stuff in the ailses to market more items, but blocks access for me to get things from the shelf without assistance. I have to ask and plead for help, makes me feel more handicapped. What do I do? Who do I talk to?
If you find out let me know, I have the same problems with Kmart,wal-mart and home depot. I fell off of one of their scooters in a Missouri Wal-Mart and cut and bruised my leg because it didnt have the safety mat on the floor of the scooter. I informed the mgr and they didnt care, said they were sorry.