MO SB907

Missouri residents or the attorney general may file civil actions against parties, attorneys, or law firms to determine whether website accessibility lawsuits under the ADA constitute "abusive litigation" primarily aimed at extracting payments rather than improving accessibility

Courts must consider factors including whether plaintiffs filed high numbers of similar lawsuits without meaningful remediation efforts, whether defendants received reasonable pre-suit notice, history of sanctions against plaintiffs, and reasonableness of settlement demands

Defendants who receive written notice of an alleged website access violation and initiate substantial corrective steps within 90 days receive a rebuttable presumption that subsequent claims are abusive

Courts may award reasonable attorney's fees and costs to defendants found to be targets of abusive litigation, plus punitive damages or sanctions up to three times the attorney's fees awarded

The law automatically expires if the federal Department of Justice issues website accessibility standards under Title III of the ADA