Three Parking Spots Outside New York: An Unlikely Big Law Battle

Gerard Kelly wants three handicap parking spaces installed on a downtown street in Garden City, New York, and now Covington & Burling and Seyfarth Shaw will square off in federal court.

Kelly, who has multiple sclerosis, first asked the nearly 23,000-person village to install the handicap spots two years ago. With the help of Covington & Burling partner David Luttinger, Kelly in July last year filed an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against the village in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Court-ordered mediation that began in February failed this month, according to court records. With ...