Sued by East End Trial Group over your website?

East End Trial Group LLC is a Pittsburgh law firm that files website accessibility lawsuits in federal court in Pennsylvania. If your business was named in one, here's what the complaints say and what to do first.

This is a technical accessibility assessment, not legal advice, and automated testing cannot establish ADA compliance.

What the court records show

From October 5 to October 7, 2026, the firm filed 6 ADA cases in the federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, by our count of the public dockets on CourtListener. All 6 name the same plaintiff. We read 3 of those complaints, and all 3 were about a website.

What the complaint says

The 3 complaints we read follow the same outline and run to 17 or 18 pages:

• The plaintiff is legally blind and uses a screen reader.
• The website shows information visually that a screen reader doesn't announce. The examples are specific to each site: star ratings, which colour or size is selected, prices and discounts, form error messages, and a chat button.
• The firm says it emailed the business before suing, to discuss the problem, and that this didn't resolve it. In the 3 complaints we read, those emails were sent between five and twelve months before the lawsuit.

Each one makes a single claim, under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. None of the 3 was filed as a class action.

What it asks the court for

• A declaration that the website violated the ADA when the case was filed.
• An order with a schedule: name an accessibility team within 60 days, hire an accessibility consultant within 90 days, and bring the site to WCAG 2.1 level A and AA within 18 months.
• A published accessibility statement.
• Damages "as the Court deems proper", plus the plaintiff's attorneys' fees and costs.

What any of this means for your business is a question for your attorney. How these lawsuits work, in plain English.

Common questions

Is the lawsuit real?

A filed case has a case number, such as 2:26-cv-02195. You can look it up free on CourtListener or on PACER, the federal courts' own system. If the case is there, it's real.

Did we miss an earlier email?

Possibly. The complaints say the firm wrote to a general address such as hello@ or info@ months earlier. Search those inboxes, including spam, for the firm's name, and give your attorney whatever you find.

Will an automated scan find these problems?

Only some of them. A scan finds missing alternative text, unlabeled fields and low contrast. Whether a screen reader announces a star rating or a selected colour usually has to be checked by hand. How we test, and what a scan can't tell you.

First steps

1. Write down the date you were served and talk to an attorney. A lawsuit has a short, fixed deadline to respond. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away.
2. List the specific barriers in the complaint. These complaints name them one by one, so you can check each on your own site.
3. Get the technical facts. Find out which of them still exist today, and what else a scan finds on your home, product, cart and checkout pages.
4. Fix the real issues in the site itself. Step-by-step fixes: Shopify, WordPress. An accessibility widget doesn't change the code the complaint is about: do widgets stop lawsuits?
5. Keep dated records of what was wrong, what you changed and when.

How we counted

On October 8, 2026 we searched CourtListener for federal civil-rights cases coded "ADA – Other" that list East End Trial Group as plaintiff's counsel and were filed from September 14 to October 7, 2026. Cases that haven't reached CourtListener aren't counted, so the real number may be higher. We read the complaints that were available as public documents. We have no connection to the firm or its clients. If anything here is wrong, tell us and we'll correct it.

Sued by a different firm? See Gottlieb & Associates.