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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=jsnyder@audiodescribe.com href="mailto:jsnyder@audiodescribe.com">Joel
Snyder</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=ad-international@acb.org
href="mailto:ad-international@acb.org">'ACB audio description discussion
list'</A> ; <A title=acb-l@acb.org href="mailto:acb-l@acb.org">acb-l@acb.org</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:18 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [acb-l] A "banner day" in court!</DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>As many of you know, yesterday in San Francisco there was an
oral argument in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal in a case concerning captioning
and audio description in movie theaters.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Jeff Thom of the California Council of the Blind, along with
top access advocates/attorneys, provided an amicus brief in the case on behalf
of ACB, AFB, the AAPD, the Screen Actors' Guild, and others as well as
individual blind movie-goers. The case was argued by a lawyer in the
Arizona Attorney General's office who filed the case against the movie theater
chain that refused to provide captions or audio
description. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>You’ll enjoy reading the blog post by John Waldo appended at
the bottom of this message. (The actual blog post can be accessed on
the web at: <A
href="http://www.hearinglosslaw.com/2010/01/articles/washcap-1/public-facilities/banner-day-in-court-for-people-with-hearing-loss/">http://www.hearinglosslaw.com/2010/01/articles/washcap-1/public-facilities/banner-day-in-court-for-people-with-hearing-loss/</A>
)<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I think we’ve all taken a major step forward in support of
access at the movies!<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>All best,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Joel<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>JOEL SNYDER<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>President, Audio Description Associates, LLC<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Director, Audio Description Project<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>American Council of the Blind<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Posted on January 14, 2010 by <A
href="http://www.hearinglosslaw.com/promo/about/">John Waldo</A> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><A
href="http://www.hearinglosslaw.com/2010/01/articles/washcap-1/public-facilities/banner-day-in-court-for-people-with-hearing-loss/">Banner
Day in Court for People with Hearing Loss</A> <o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>A federal appeals court in San Francisco heard oral arguments
on Jan. 13 about whether movie theaters must offer services like captioning or
audio descriptions so that those of us with sensory losses can enjoy the movies.
And the arguments of one theater chain that all it needs to do is open the doors
and let us in was, to put it mildly, poorly received.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Those of us who have spent a lot of time in appellate courts
are usually pretty cautious about trying to predict a case's outcome based on
the questions the judges ask. But there are sometimes a few clues, or "tells"
that can indicate that, just maybe, things aren't going your way.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>1) When the judges start making the other side's argument for
them, that's a pretty good "tell."<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>2) When the judges say your clients are "being jerks," that's
a pretty good "tell."<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>3) When the judges suggest that "someday," people will be
laughing at your argument, then when you don't back off, proceed to do so,
that's a pretty good "tell."<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Well, I'm pleased to report that all of those things happened
to the attorneys for the Harkins theater chain when the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals heard arguments about whether the Americans with Disabilities Act
requires movie theaters to show captioned (and audio-described)
movies.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>As you may know, the Arizona Attorney General's Office sued
the Harkins theater chain, claiming that the business violated both ADA and
Arizona state law by failing to show captioned and described movies. The AG was
not suggesting that the theaters themselves had to provide the captions or
descriptions, but only that they need to install the equipment necessary to show
the captions and descriptions provided by the studios.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The theaters took the position that ADA does not regulate the
contents of their products or services, and that they offer non-captioned
movies. "We have the right to choose what services we provide, and that is our
choice," said the attorney for the theaters. "We let everyone come into our
theaters and see our (non-captioned) movies, and that is what ADA requires us to
do."<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The AG's office, on the other hand, said that captions are
the kind of "auxiliary aid and service" that the ADA requires to enable people
with hearing and vision losses to gain the "full enjoyment" of the businesses'
offerings.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The judges basically said flat-out that they thought the
theater argument is preposterous. Alex Kozinski, the chief judge, said, "What if
we took the position that this building is a building with steps, and if someone
in a wheelchair wants to come in, they can find somebody to carry
them?"<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Kozinksi went on, "Actually, that case happened, and some
lawyer argued that being able to crawl up the steps was good enough. Today,
people are laughing at that argument, and I wouldn't be surprised if in a few
years, people are laughing at your argument."<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The attorney didn't back down. And the judges started
laughing.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>"Captions just let them enjoy the same movie that everybody
else sees," Kozinski said. "I don't know why you don't want to do
this."<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Kozinski went on to say that at best, it's only a matter of
time before movie theaters have to comply. "You are going to lose," he said.
"You might not even lose this case, but you will lose someday. Why don't you get
out ahead and do the right thing instead of being jerks?"<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Nor were the judges impressed with any argument about cost. I
asked for CART for the hearing, which was provided. "That wasn't in our budget,"
Kozinski said, "but we pulled it together in a day. With what theaters are doing
with 3D, the cost of this (providing equipment to show captions) is just a drop
in the bucket."<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Now I don't want to suggest that we're going to see every
movie captioned at any time in the future. The judges seemed pretty clear in
their view that open-captioning can change the moviegoing experience for hearing
patrons, and that the interests of those patrons must be balanced against the
benefit to those of us who need captions. I think it's quite clear that
those theaters that offer open captions, visible to everyone in the
audience, would not be required to caption every movie.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The judges also recognized that the pending change-over to
digital display may mean that some things that can't be done now can be done in
the future, and that today's captioning equipment may become obsolete. But the
judges said issues of that nature should be worked out by the parties
themselves.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>In fact, that's just what the judges suggested. "You've got
your general counsel here," Kozinski told the Harkins attorney, "and the AG's
office is here. Why don't you just go down to the cafeteria and work out a
schedule today?"<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I would anticipate a "quick" decision from the court, but
"quick" from an appellate court probably still means four to six
months.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Meanwhile, the attorneys representing the movie theaters in
our Washington case were in the audience. They asked me afterwards whether we
could just put our case on ice for awhile, until the court rules on Harkins.
They noted that we're "going to spend a lot of money" making motions in our
case.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I said I wasn't interested in a stay. What I suggested
instead is that they basically just throw in the towel on any argument that they
don't have to do anything, and sit down and negotiate what and when they have to
do things. Their response: "we'll report to our clients about what happened
today, and get back to you."<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The bottom line -- circle today's date on your calendar. This
was the day that the movie theaters' arguments that "we don't have to do
anything" crumbled.<o:p></o:p></P>
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