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102932P.pdf 05/02/2011 Terri Meagley v. City of Little Rock
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-2932
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Loken, Circuit Judge, and
Jarvey, District Judge]
Civil case - Americans with Disabilities Act. The Eighth Circuit joins
every other circuit which has decided the issue and holds that in order to
recover compensatory damages under either the ADA or the
Rehabilitation Act, a plaintiff must establish that an agency's
discrimination was intentional; the district court did not err in finding
plaintiff failed to show intentional discrimination; zoo's scooter rentals
were not intended to meet ADA requirements, being instead a
convenience for all visitors, and the rental fee was not an impermissible
surcharge under the ADA; plaintiff could not show an adequate injury in
fact, and she lacked standing to challenge the waiver of tort liability the
zoo enacted after her scooter accident.