New Shopping Center Stores Must Allow All Customers to Enter Through Front Doors, Judge Rules

Rejecting a shopping mall store's arguments that a porch-like front doorway with two steps was in compliance with disability laws because handicapped-accessible doors were right at hand, too, a federal judge in Colorado today held that Hollister Co. had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Chief U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel said the company, which is a brand of Abercrombie &...