Manning Law and ADA Website Lawsuits

Manning Law, APC is a Newport Beach, California firm at the center of many of today’s ADA website accessibility dockets. If a California restaurant, retailer, or e-commerce brand is sued over an inaccessible website, there is a real possibility that the complaint came from this office, or one of its regular plaintiffs. The firm files under the Americans with Disabilities Act and, more importantly for defendants, under California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act; but California law delivers the real bite, allowing plaintiffs to seek damages in these cases.

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Who is Manning Law APC, and what are Manning Law ADA Website Lawsuits?

Manning Law built a national profile in the case of Robles v. Domino’s Pizza. That case helped establish the concept that a business with a physical location can face ADA claims when its website or app is not usable by blind customers who use screen readers. After the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to wipe that theory out, website accessibility suits became a standing practice area rather than a mere novelty.

Since that time, Manning Law has represented a number of repeat plaintiffs. Names that recur on 2025 and 2026 dockets include Michael Sandoval, Perla Mageno, Rebecca Castillo, and others who also appear in brick-and-mortar access cases. Lawsuit trackers have credited Manning plaintiffs with a large share of all website filings: hundreds of ADA website cases in 2025, second only to New York’s Equal Access Law Group on several monthly lists.

Combined with California state-court Unruh filings, the firm’s footprint is larger than federal website counts suggest. An April 2026 Los Angeles Times investigation reported that seven of the firm’s regular clients sued more than 1,000 Southern California businesses in a single year, and that Manning plaintiffs have filed more than 9,000 disability-related complaints in the region over about a decade. Many of those cases are physical access cases. A growing share target websites.

Why California Website Cases Pay for Plaintiffs

Federal ADA Title III generally offers injunctive relief and attorney’s fees, not statutory damages. California changes the math. A violation of the ADA is also a violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act. Unruh provides a minimum of $4,000 per violation, plus fees, without proof of out-of-pocket loss. Plaintiffs argue that each inaccessible feature—or each visit—can count. That is why so many California website cases now sit in state court rather than federal court. Federal judges in the state have also grown less willing to keep Unruh damages claims attached to ADA suits, which pushes volume into Superior Court. The typical Manning website complaint looks like complaints from other high-volume firms. It alleges that a visually impaired plaintiff could not independently use the site with a screen reader. Recurring defects include:

• Images, buttons, and icons without alternative text

• Links and form fields without accessible names

• Menus and checkout flows that fail keyboard-only use

• Heading structure that a screen reader cannot follow

• Online ordering that cannot be completed without a mouse or sighted help

  
  

The prayer for relief usually seeks an injunction to bring the site into line with WCAG-style access, statutory Unruh damages, and fees.

What a Business Should Do

Treat a Manning complaint as a real case with a short clock. Preserve the live site and CMS as they existed on the alleged visit date. Have ADA defense counsel check standing, whether the plaintiff actually attempted a transaction, and whether the Unruh count is properly pled. On the website itself, the highest-yield fixes match the complaint template: alt text, labels, focus order, keyboard access on search, product, cart, and checkout. Document the audit and the remediations. Overlays and widgets do not reliably defeat these suits.

Manning Law ADA Website Lawsuits are not the only ADA website cases, but Manning Law is the California firm that consistently shows up on national filing leaderboards and in Southern California state court. Until California changes state-level laws, ecommerce and local businesses with public websites should assume they are visible to the plaintiff's bar, and fix all paths a screen-reader user actually needs - before a complaint from Manning Law or another law firm arrives.

For more information and assistance, contact Law Offices of Nolan Klein.