Love
Love v. M W G J LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SAMUEL LOVE, Case No. 21-cv-01471-JD
Plaintiff,
ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS
v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 8 M W G J LLC, Defendant.
12 Plaintiff Samuel Love is a paraplegic and requires a wheelchair for mobility. Dkt. No. 1 ¶ 1. He has alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. (ADA), and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal Civ. Code §§ 51-53, against defendant M W G J LLC (MWGJ), which owns and operates the Candlelight Inn Napa Valley in Napa, California. Love describes himself as “an ADA tester” who is “actively engaged in finding law breaking businesses and hauling them before the courts to be penalized.” Id. ¶ 27. To that end, he is a frequent ADA plaintiff in this and other federal courts. The complaint alleges that the Candlelight Inn website does not comply with the “Reservations Rule,” 28 C.F.R. § 36.302(e)(1)(ii), which requires places of lodging to “identify and describe accessible features . . . in enough…