Federal ADA lawsuit tracker
How many ADA lawsuits are actually being filed? Most numbers in circulation are hard to check. These aren’t: this page counts civil cases filed in US federal district courts under the ADA’s non-employment nature-of-suit code, straight from public court records, and every number links to the query that produced it.
Last refreshed 2026-10-02. No parties are named here — this page reports filing volume only.
*Court records reach the public archive with a delay, so recent counts only rise between refreshes. Details in the methodology below.
Filings by month
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| Month | Filings | Records | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | 475 | complete | View the query |
| March 2026 | 487 | complete | View the query |
| April 2026 | 497 | complete | View the query |
| May 2026 | 392 | complete | View the query |
| June 2026 | 208 | complete | View the query |
| July 2026 | 280 | still arriving | View the query |
| August 2026 | 371 | still arriving | View the query |
By district, June 2026
Where June 2026’s 208 filings were docketed: the seven busiest districts, from a count of every docket that month, and everything else as the remainder. Every district, and the busiest ones month by month.
View as a table
| District | Filings | Source |
|---|---|---|
| S.D. Florida | 61 | View the query |
| S.D. New York | 34 | View the query |
| W.D. Pennsylvania | 27 | View the query |
| C.D. California | 26 | View the query |
| M.D. Florida | 15 | View the query |
| N.D. Illinois | 10 | View the query |
| E.D. New York | 8 | View the query |
| All other districts | 27 | national total minus the districts above |
Methodology
- What is counted. Civil cases filed in US federal district courts under nature-of-suit code 446, “Americans with Disabilities — Other” — the code covering non-employment ADA suits. That includes both website-accessibility suits and physical-premises suits; the code does not distinguish between them, and we don’t guess. State-court cases are not included.
- Source. The CourtListener/RECAP archive of federal court records, run by the non-profit Free Law Project. A filing appears in our counts only once it reaches that archive, so true totals are higher than any number on this page, and recent months rise for weeks after they end — we mark those provisional rather than publishing them as final.
- Reproducibility. Every count links to the public search that produced it. If you run a query and see a higher number than we show, the archive has received more records since our last refresh — that is the expected direction of drift.
- What we leave out. Party names. No defendants, no plaintiffs, no law firms — this page reports the volume of filings, not who is involved in them.
- Platforms and widgets. We tried to break a month of these filings down by e-commerce platform and accessibility widget, and stopped when most of the month turned out to be unclassifiable. There is no such number on this site, and the method and the full funnel are published anyway.
Compiled from public US federal court records. A lawsuit filing is an allegation only — we assert no wrongdoing by any party, and nothing on this page is legal advice. Corrections or questions: support@screenmy.site.
Frequently asked questions
- How many ADA lawsuits are filed in federal court each month?
- About 412 a month in 2026: from February to June 2026, the months with substantially complete records, US federal district courts received an average of 412 non-employment ADA filings a month, with the most in April 2026 (497). These counts come from public court records as of 2026-10-02 and include every non-employment ADA suit, not only website cases.
- Are these website accessibility lawsuits?
- Not only. The tracker counts nature-of-suit code 446, which covers all non-employment ADA suits: website accessibility cases and physical-premises cases together. Federal court records do not separate the two, so this page does not either. State-court cases are not included.
- Which federal courts see the most ADA filings?
- S.D. Florida had the most filings of any federal district court in June 2026 (61 of 208 nationally), followed by S.D. New York (34) and W.D. Pennsylvania (27). The ranking counts every docket of the month across all 94 district courts; the full list is on the by-district page.
- Why do the most recent months look lower?
- Because court records reach the public archive late. Counts for recent months only rise between refreshes, so July to August 2026 are marked provisional and will go up. A lower recent number is not evidence that filings are falling.
- Where does this data come from, and can I check it?
- From the CourtListener/RECAP archive of federal court records, run by the non-profit Free Law Project. Every count on this page links to the public search that produced it, so anyone can re-run it; a higher number than ours means the archive has received more records since our last refresh.
Why we publish this
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