{"id":796,"date":"2011-10-22T20:54:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2011-10-22T20:54:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T02:54:13","slug":"new-york-man-disabled-by-cerebral-palsy-vindicated-in-bid-to-have-automatic-door-opener-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/new-york-man-disabled-by-cerebral-palsy-vindicated-in-bid-to-have-automatic-door-opener-installed.html","title":{"rendered":"New York Man Disabled By Cerebral Palsy Vindicated In Bid To Have Automatic Door Opener Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A New York City man who has cerebral palsy has won a second round in his legal battle against his residence,\u00a0Co-op City in the Bronx, according to the New York Daily News.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/bronx\/2011\/10\/20\/2011-10-20_disabled_man_wins_openshut_case_vs_coop_city.html\">http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/bronx\/2011\/10\/20\/2011-10-20_disabled_man_wins_openshut_case_vs_coop_city.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>New York State Supreme Court Judge Mary Ann Brigantti-Hughes upheld a ruling that mandated that Riverbay, which manages Co-op City, install automatic door openers at 100 Aldrich St.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>John Rose, 68, has cerebral palsy\u00a0and is confined to a motorized wheelchair. He had filed\u00a0a complaint against Riverbay with the\u00a0New York City Commission\u00a0of Human Rights because he couldn&#8217;t open the\u00a0front\u00a0door of his building without help, according to the News. Last year the commission found that Riverbay had to install the automatic doors to accommodate Rose, a ruling that was\u00a0appealed by Riverbay.<\/p>\r\n<p>The commission had fined Riverbay $50,000 and gave Rose damages of $51,000.<\/p>\r\n<p>Judge Brigantti-Hughes\u00a0upheld the\u00a0commission&#8217;s decision, the News reported. But she\u00a0reduced\u00a0the fine to $5,000 and cut the damages to $16,000.<\/p>\r\n<p>The judge found that\u00a0Riverbay wasn&#8217;t giving\u00a0Rose an &#8220;unsegregated accommodation,&#8221; which is mandated\u00a0by city law, according to the News.<\/p>\r\n<p>Riverbay complained that it would cost about\u00a0$50,000 to install the automated doors.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City man who has cerebral palsy has won a second round in his legal battle against his residence,\u00a0Co-op City in the Bronx, according to the New York Daily News. http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/bronx\/2011\/10\/20\/2011-10-20_disabled_man_wins_openshut_case_vs_coop_city.html New York State Supreme Court Judge Mary Ann Brigantti-Hughes upheld a ruling that mandated that Riverbay, which manages Co-op City, install automatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[514,8],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cerbral-palsy-lawsuits","tag-cerebral-palsy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}