Plaintiff
- Name: Roy Davis Gash
- Filing date: May 30, 2020
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: Torrance Venture
- Website: www.torranceventureapts.com
- Industry: Real Estate
- Summary: Torrance Venture Apartments offers 1, 2, 3 and 4 Bedroom apartment homes in the award-winning West Torrance School District in CA.
Case Summary
On May 30, 2020, Roy Davis Gash filed a Complaint in California Federal court against Torrance Venture. Plaintiff Roy Davis Gash alleges that www.torranceventureapts.com is not accessible.
Case Details
Plaintiff alleges issues in its Complaint including the following:
- Defendants websites and Defendants’ rental services are not integrated for Plaintiff and other people with disabilities as required.
- Defendants’ internet photographs only entice people without mobility disabilities. Defendants’ internet photographs exclude any photographs of any accessible features
- Plaintiff and other persons with vision disabilities must request help to read the website information because the printed information is too small, but people without disabilities can access the websites without asking for help.
Plaintiff asserts the following cause(s) of action in its Complaint:
- DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS – FAIR HOUSING ACT CLAIMS
- Violation of California Fair Housing Act
- Claims Under The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990
- CLAIMS UNDER CALIFORNIA ACCESSIBILITY LAWS
Plaintiff seeks the following relief by way of its Complaint:
- Plaintiff Gash seeks injunctive relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 3613(c) and 42 U.S.C. § 12188(a). Additionally, Plaintiff seeks injunctive relief pursuant to CA Civil Code §52. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 3613(c), Plaintiff requests this court to enjoin Defendants to cease their discriminatory practices in housing rental services, rental housing management services, and for Defendants to implement written policies and methods to respond to reasonable accommodation and reasonable modification requests. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 12188(a), Plaintiff requests this Court enjoin Defendants to remove all barriers to equal access to Plaintiff in, at, or on their facilities, including but not limited to architectural and communicative barriers in the provision of Defendants’ rental services. Plaintiff does not seek injunctive relief pursuant to Cal. Civil Code §55 and Plaintiff does not seek attorneys’ fees pursuant to Cal. Civil Code §55. Plaintiff does not seek any relief at all pursuant to Cal. Civil Code §55.
- Plaintiff Gash seeks actual damages pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 3613(c).
- Plaintiff Gash also seeks recovery of actual damages pursuant to Cal. Civil Code §§ 52 or 54.3
- Plaintiff Gash seeks $4,000 in minimum statutory damages pursuant to Cal. Civil Code § 52 for each and every offense of Civil Code § 51, pursuant to Munson v. Del Taco, (June 2009) 46 Cal. 4th 661
- In the alternative to the damages pursuant to Cal. Civil Code § 52 in Paragraph D above, Plaintiff Gash seeks $1,000 in minimum statutory damages pursuant to Cal. Civil Code § 54.3 for each and every offense of Civil Code § 54.1
- Plaintiff Gash seeks attorneys' fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 3613(c)(2), 42 U.S.C. § 12205, and Cal. Civil Code §§ 52, 54.3
- Plaintiff Gash seeks treble damages pursuant to Cal. Civil Code §§ 52(a) or 54.3(a)
- Plaintiff Gash is seeking prospective injunctive relief to require the Defendants to provide obvious reasonable accommodations, to provide the required auxiliary aids and to modify Defendants’ procedures, practices, and policies of the Defendants in the provision of Defendants’ rental services. Without prospective relief, Plaintiff will suffer future harm.
- Plaintiff Gash seeks a Jury Trial
- For such other further relief as the court deems proper.