Wednesday, February 15, 2012

UK And Ticket Holder Settle Lawsuit

{Lexington, Kentucky}...Charles Mitchell of Lancaster, a deaf University of Kentucky football season ticket holder, and the school have settled a lawsuit over closed-captioning at Commonwealth Stadium. Mitchell sued in May, seeking to force the university to put captions for all game announcements on the scoreboards of the stadium under the Americans With Disabilities Act. University of Kentucky spokesman DeWayne Peevy said the school added the captioning when it spent $6.5 million to install new scoreboards and ribbon boards at the stadium late last year. The parties told U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood Tuesday they had reached an agreement. The final settlement paperwork hasn't been filed with the court, but is due to Hood by March 2nd.