DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, May 8, 2013
-- a Netflix captioning lawsuit dispute
Who wins the captioning lawsuit? Netflix or the
deaf plaintiff or the attorneys? A big argument
took place in California over a $262,000 legal
fee. No one wants to pay for it - and the judge
said "me hands off." Regardless of who eventually
pays, the attorneys win. Should we compare the
$262,000 legal fee with the $7.99 monthly rate
Netflix charges for their movies?
-- which captioning glasses is the best?
Few years ago there was just one captioning glasses.
Now we have a few captioning glasses - and just recently
NTID had a contest with five different teams - to design
the best captioning glasses! Don't be surprised if we
have 10-15 different captioning glasses on the market.
Confusing? Probably!
-- being stopped by the police while driving
All of us have, at one time or other, been stopped by
police for any reason while driving. 99 percent of the
time when a deaf driver is stopped by the police, there
are no incidents. But for one percent, the incident could
be ugly. Seven years ago Doug Bahl, a well known deaf
Minnesotan, was stopped by the police and then roughed
up. After a series of lawsuits, the St Paul city reached
settlement of nearly $94,000 with the promise to provide
interpreters when deaf drivers need it.
05/05/13 Blue edition at:
http://35.182.75.222/category/newsletter/newsletter-blue-newsletter/
05/05/13 Gold edition at:
http://35.182.75.222/category/newsletter/newsletter-gold-newsletter/
