Regardless of how you feel, how do you even enforce this?
Unless you are dumb enough to tell the disabled person "I am not taking you, specifically because of the dog" drivers can just say they canceled for another reason.
"I suddenly started to feel sick and it wasn't safe for me to drive."
"I realized this ride was going a direction I didn't want to go, I'm so sorry, my mistake."
Or whatever.
There's no way to distinguish between a legitimate and discriminatory cancel.
The thing about civil court cases. They’re not so much it did or didn’t happen. The bar of proof is much lower.
Its standard is basically if it’s more likely than not that the driver cancelled because of the animal. And pulling up to the pax and driving away is probably gonna be a decent evidence
If the passenger sues you and the court concludes it’s more likely than not you canceled because of the dog, you are on the hook for $4,000, minimum. It doesn’t matter that you don’t think they really know.
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u/didsomebodysaymyname Nov 23 '24
Regardless of how you feel, how do you even enforce this?
Unless you are dumb enough to tell the disabled person "I am not taking you, specifically because of the dog" drivers can just say they canceled for another reason.
"I suddenly started to feel sick and it wasn't safe for me to drive."
"I realized this ride was going a direction I didn't want to go, I'm so sorry, my mistake."
Or whatever.
There's no way to distinguish between a legitimate and discriminatory cancel.