Whitaker

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 BRIAN WHITAKER, Case No. 21-cv-07867-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

v.

CUMAICA CORPORATION, Defendant.

12 13 Plaintiff Brian Whitaker has sued Defendant Cumaica Corporation for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act. Mr. Whitaker alleges that he is a quadriplegic who uses a wheelchair for mobility and that, in September 2021, he went to Cumaica Coffee (which is owned by Cumaica Corporation and is located in San Francisco), but it did not have “wheelchair accessible dining surfaces in conformance with the ADA Standards.” Compl. ¶ 10 (specifying that one problem encountered was “insufficient toe and knee clearance under the dining surfaces”). According to Mr. Whitaker, he

will return to Cumaica Coffee to avail himself of its goods or services and to determine compliance with the disability access laws once it is represented to him that Cumaica Coffee and its facilities…