masks in public accommodations.
As the year wore on, the plaintiffs’ bar got back to work and filed a number of new lawsuits in the last quarter of 2020. As in prior years, we are completing our tally of lawsuits filed in federal courts and will know whether the end-of-year surge made up for the decrease in activity over the summer.
No one could have predicted what we have endured as a country in 2020. But one thing is fairly certain: 2021 will be a very busy year for ADA Title III lawsuits. If they remain on current pace, we expect they will likely equal or exceed the 2019 count.