Ships must obey US disabled laws

But the court left it to lower courts to decide exactly what changes foreign-flagged ships, which make up the majority of vessels in US waters, will have to adopt, reports The Washington Post. The majority agreed that foreign-flagged vessels plying US waters could be required to eliminate barriers to disabled passengers. The case, Spector v Norwegian Cruise Line, posed a conflict between maritime law, with its age-old notion that governments may not normally meddle in the ‘internal affairs’ of foreign vessels, and the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, with its requirement that ‘places of public accommodation’ and ‘private transportation entities’ be made open and accessible for disabled people. Full report in The Washington Post