{"id":20374,"date":"2023-06-27T02:33:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T08:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20374"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:12:05","slug":"a-win-off-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-win-off-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"A Win Off The Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Cubs scored a victory in court last week as a federal judge ruled that the billion-dollar renovation of Wrigley Field did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.\u00a0 The decision follows an April trial that came nearly six years after a Chicago attorney filed suit against the team on behalf of his son, who is confined to a wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy, claiming that the extensive renovations did not provide enough accessible seating to comply with the ADA.<\/p>\n

With a listed capacity of 39,510, Wrigley Field would be required to have at least 209 accessible seats to meet ADA standards.\u00a0 In his ruling, the judge notes that there at least 210 accessible seats (the Cubs claim there are 225) and that an April site visit “impressed upon the Court the variety of locations and views on offer for patrons who require accessible seating, as well as that \u2018friendly confines\u2019 feeling that is unique to Wrigley Field.”<\/p>\n

In a statement, Cubs spokesperson Julian Green said that the team was \u201cgrateful for today\u2019s decision and its validation of our belief we followed accessibility guidelines throughout the 1060 Project.\u201d\u00a0 The team is not out of the woods completely, though, as last July<\/a>, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Chicago filed a separate lawsuit against the Cubs, claiming the renovations at Wrigley Field violated federal law by failing to make the park \u201cappropriately accessible\u201d to fans with disabilities.\u00a0 That lawsuit is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cubs scored a victory in court last week as a federal judge ruled that the billion-dollar renovation of Wrigley Field did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.\u00a0 The decision follows an April trial that came nearly six years after a Chicago attorney filed suit against the team on behalf of his son, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10136,120,10137,595],"class_list":["post-20374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-ada","tag-cubs","tag-julian-green","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20375,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20374\/revisions\/20375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}