- Janice Garry filed a Florida Bar complaint against lawyer Aleksandra Kravets for ethics concerns over ADA lawsuits targeting small businesses.
- The Florida Bar advanced Garry’s complaint to its Fort Lauderdale Office for further investigation after initial filings and rebuttals.
- Aleksandra Kravets represented 8.8% of Florida’s ADA website compliance lawsuits, filing 220 cases mostly between 2024 and 2025.
- Two bills, H.R. 7328 and H.R. 6453, propose giving website owners 180 and 30 days respectively to fix ADA issues before facing lawsuits.
A single lawyer filing hundreds of nearly identical lawsuits against Florida businesses seemed unethical to Gainesville resident Janice Garry.
Garry previously served as president of the League of Women Voters of Alachua County, and after stepping down, she continued speaking out on local and national issues.
Now, she’s co-chair of the What You Can Do campaign, promoting 10-minute activism. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits against Gainesville businesses, revealed in a December report by Mainstreet Daily News, were included as part of the initiative, with recommendations to shop local, donate to an impacted business and share the information with small business owners…