Sued by Horowitz Law over your website?

Horowitz Law, PLLC is a law firm in Flushing, New York that files ADA website class actions in the Northern District of Illinois, in Chicago, against online stores. If your business was named in one, here's what the complaint says and what to do first.

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What the court records show

Between August 20 and October 20, 2026, Horowitz Law filed 3 ADA website cases in the Northern District of Illinois, by our count of the public dockets on CourtListener, for two plaintiffs. All three name a brand that sells online: an outdoor clothing company, a kitchen appliance company and a vitamin maker. All 3 complaints are public, and we read them. They use the same template, about 20 pages each.

What the complaint says

The plaintiff lives in Cook County, Illinois, is legally blind and uses a screen reader.
It names a date and a product. In the complaint we read in full, the plaintiff visited the site about three weeks before the case was filed, picked one product and tried to buy it.
It describes two barriers from that visit in detail: several images of the same product with the same vague description, and a checkout pop-up that opened without moving keyboard focus into it.
It then lists about nine more barriers found "from investigations performed on her behalf," such as vague or repeated link text, links that open a new tab without saying so, buttons without names, infinite scrolling on a category page, and search suggestions and status messages a screen reader doesn't announce.
It names WCAG 2.2 as the standard.
It's a class action. It asks to represent every legally blind person in the United States who tried to use the website.
It adds a claim for emotional distress. Besides the ADA claim and a request for a declaration, it claims negligent infliction of emotional distress.
It doesn't mention a notice letter before the lawsuit.

What it asks the court for

An order to bring the website into compliance with the ADA.
A declaration that the website discriminates against blind users.
Certification as a class action.
Money: nominal, compensatory and punitive damages, plus interest.
The plaintiff's attorneys' fees, expert 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 1:26-cv-12888. You can look it up free on CourtListener or on PACER, the federal courts' own system. If the case is there, it's real.

We're not in Illinois. Why was it filed in Chicago?

The complaint says the plaintiff lives in Cook County and tried to use the website there. Whether that's enough for an Illinois court to hear the case against a company based elsewhere is a legal question for your attorney.

Does the class action part change things?

It raises the stakes on paper, because the complaint speaks for everyone in the same situation, not one person. Whether the court ever lets it go ahead as a class action is up to the court. Ask your attorney what it means for your case.

Will an automated scan find these problems?

Some of them. A scan finds buttons with no name and many vague links. Focus that doesn't move into a pop-up, unannounced search suggestions and infinite scrolling problems show up only when someone works through the site with a keyboard and a screen reader. How we test, and what a scan can't tell you.

First steps

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.
Find the product and the pages the complaint names. It names the product the plaintiff tried to buy, so you know exactly which path to test.
Try to buy that product with only a keyboard. Product images, the add-to-cart or checkout pop-up, and search come up in these complaints.
Get the technical facts. Find out which barriers still exist today, and what else a scan finds. The complaint says its list is not the full list.
Fix the real issues in the site itself. Step-by-step fixes: WordPress, Shopify.
Keep dated records of what was wrong, what you changed and when.

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How we counted

On November 9, 2026 we searched CourtListener for federal civil-rights cases coded "ADA – Other" that list Horowitz Law, PLLC as plaintiff's counsel and were filed from August 1 to November 9, 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, Joseph & Norinsberg, Usher Law Group, East End Trial Group, Nye, Stirling, Hale, Miller & Sweet, ADA Legal Team, Mendez Law Offices, Roderick V. Hannah and Pelayo Duran, Alberto R. Leal, Shaked Law Group, Equal Access Law Group.