Netflix Seeks Permission To Appeal Order To Comply With ADA
(National Law Journal)
August 2, 2012
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS– [Excerpt provided by Inclusion Daily Express] Netflix Inc. asked a federal judge in Massachusetts for permission to appeal his ruling that the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires the company to provide closed-captioning text for its web-only streaming video.
Netflix filed a motion on July 27 asking U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor to amend his June 19 order denying Netflix’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and to certify an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Ponsor, a senior judge in Springfield, Mass., issued the order in National Association of the Deaf v. Netflix Inc. The organization, along with a number of additional advocacy groups, sued Netflix in June 2011 over its lack of closed-captioned text.
In its motion, Netflix called Ponsor’s order “the broadest-ever extension of the ADA’s scope, thereby opening the door to amorphous and seemingly limitless regulation of the Internet in a way Congress did not envision and no other court has accepted.”
The company added that Ponsor’s ruling, the first applying the ADA to streaming technology, conflicted with the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. That law established a regulatory scheme for closed-captioning on streaming video content.
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