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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -― A lawsuit filed against a famous but tiny Sacramento burger joint over disabled access has been dropped.
The lawsuit against the Squeeze Inn (pictured) was filed back in July by a Sacramento wheelchair-bound woman, who said that there's no handicap parking in the front, no ramp to get a wheelchair through the front door, no room for a wheelchair to turn around inside the business, no room for a wheelchair to sit at the outdoor tables, and no ramp into the restroom.
Owner Travis Hausauer had said he would move from the Fruitridge Road location rather fight the lawsuit and take on the expense of trying to retrofit the tiny restaurant. In fact, Hausauer has already bought another property.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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