AMC movie theaters violate ADA, says judge
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20, 2002 --The AMC movie theater chain violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by offering patrons who use wheelchairs and their companions only inferior seating in the front rows of its new stadium-style movie theaters, says a Los Angeles judge. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has ruled that while AMC publicizes its stadium-style theaters as providing enhanced unobstructed lines of sight to the screen, in fact patrons who use wheelchairs are excluded from the most popular stadium sections in the vast majority of AMC's stadium-style theaters.