ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)

The federal statute prohibiting discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in employment, public accommodations, and other areas. Employment ADA claims typically arise from failure to provide reasonable accommodation or adverse actions tied to disability status. From a funding perspective, ADA cases are generally smaller in individual value than class wage claims but can be aggregated or paired with state-law analogs to reach fundable economics.

Because individual ADA claims are typically smaller in value than class wage claims, funders rarely fund them as standalone matters and instead look for aggregation opportunities — either through a state-law analog with broader class mechanics or by combining an ADA theory with a related wage or discrimination claim against the same employer. Diligence focuses heavily on the interactive-process record, since an employer's documented engagement (or lack of it) with accommodation requests is often more determinative than the disability itself.