Did Basketball Town really close down because of a nuisance lawsuit?

Factual Questions
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According to the DC Examiner:

"When one family scheduled a birthday party for the facility’s upper floor, the wheelchair-bound uncle of an invited friend could not attend. Basketball Town offered to move the party downstairs, and the facility was fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The uncle still sued, and, Chodes said, “the cost of defending the lawsuit ultimately became more than we could bear. After about a year of fighting the lawsuit, we were forced to settle and to close our doors forever.” "

http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/Abusive-lawsuits-Suing-America-into-ruin-41458477.html

Also see http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2007/10/01/daily11.html
Is this story really so simple? What exactly happened? I dont see any legal claim here. Is this story more anti-trial lawyer propaganda, or really a legal atrocity?

2

They were sued for lack of access, and they did close. Beyond that, there’s a lot of detail that’s not available. We don’t know what the legal fees were, or how profitable the place was, or what it would have cost to install a lift, or how seriously each party explored compromise.

It certainly seems possible that the costs of the suit drove them out of business. But maybe the business was losing money already, and this was just the final straw. It’s hard to say with certainty without seeing inside the company and the suit.