Cato’s Walter Olson discusses this ugly phenomenon in this Cato@Liberty post. The main case he cites, a Ninth Circuit decision finding a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act because a wheelchair-bound individual (with, incidentally, a history of serving as a plaintiff in similarly cases) said he was not able to see his burrito being made at a Chipotle restaurant. Flabbergasting.

In any society, there are people who produce value and others who prefer to live by taking away from those who produce. The law is supposed to be against the latter, but sadly American law often helps the takers and hurts the makers.