ADA TriageSued by Shaked Law Group over your website?
Shaked Law Group, P.C. is a Scarsdale, New York law firm that files ADA website lawsuits in New York's federal courts against brands that sell online. 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 September 3 and October 26, 2026, Shaked Law Group filed 3 ADA website cases in New York's federal courts, by our count of the public dockets on CourtListener: 2 in the Southern District of New York (Manhattan) and 1 in the Eastern District (Brooklyn), each for a different plaintiff. They name small consumer brands that sell online, such as a caffeine pill maker and a chewing gum company. We read the complaint against the caffeine pill maker, about 20 pages long. In one other case, the document filed as the complaint turned out to be a different, older state-court filing, and the court marked it deficient.
What the complaint says
- The plaintiff lives in New York, is legally blind and uses a screen reader.
- It names dates and a product. The plaintiff says she tried to buy one product on three dates, the last one two days before the case was filed.
- The barriers are specific and many. It walks through the site page by page: a promotional pop-up the screen reader never reaches, no "skip to content" link, a menu that doesn't say it opens, images of text read only as "graphic," buttons announced as "unlabeled button," charts and graphs with no description, a product option that only a mouse can open, and a discount code field placed after the Pay button.
- It names WCAG 2.1 as the standard.
- It brings the ADA claim and asks for a declaration. It also refers to New York State and New York City human rights laws.
- It doesn't mention an expert or a notice letter before the lawsuit.
What it asks the court for
- An order to bring the website into compliance with the ADA, and to keep it accessible as it changes.
- A declaration that the website discriminates against blind users.
- Money: compensatory damages, "including all applicable statutory damages and fines," plus interest.
- The plaintiff's attorneys' fees, expenses 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-07561. 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 a small brand. Why us?
These complaints name small companies as well as large ones. They argue that a website that sells to the public must be usable by blind customers, whatever the size of the business. Whether that holds is a legal question; ask your attorney. New York, where these cases are filed, has more website accessibility lawsuits than any other state: ADA website lawsuits in New York.
Why are damages in a federal ADA case?
Title III of the ADA, the part that covers businesses, gives a private plaintiff an order to fix the site and attorneys' fees, not money damages. The complaint also refers to New York State and New York City human rights laws, which can allow damages. Your attorney can tell you what that means for your case.
Will an automated scan find these problems?
Some of them. A scan finds unlabeled buttons, images without text and a missing skip link. Pop-ups that don't take focus, mouse-only controls, charts without descriptions and a confusing checkout order 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.
- List each barrier in the complaint. It names the page and the control, so you can check each one on your site.
- Try to buy the product it names with only a keyboard. Pop-ups, product options and checkout come up in these complaints.
- Get the technical facts. Find out which barriers still exist today, and what else a scan finds.
- 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 Shaked Law Group, P.C. 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, Horowitz Law, Equal Access Law Group.