Brann, Peter

Peter Brann Assists Pro Bono in Major Environmental Win

Brann & Isaacson lawyer Peter Brann was co-counsel for environmental groups and tribes in lengthy proceedings and public hearings before Maine’s Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) that resulted in denial of a rezoning application by a Canadian company, Wolfden, which would have allowed mining in northern Maine near Baxter State Park and the Katahdin Woods...

Peter Brann and Eamonn Hart Prevail in VPPA Lawsuit

Brann & Isaacson lawyers, Peter Brann and Eamonn Hart, won a motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of California brought under the Video Privacy Protection Act against, Boden, a British clothing retailer. B&I argued that it was wholly insubstantial to claim that the VPPA applied to showing a small snippet of...

Brann & Isaacson Obtain Dismissal of Another Website Accessibility Case

Brann & Isaacson lawyers, Peter Brann and Hannah Wurgaft, obtained dismissal of another website accessibility case filed in NY state court by Mizrahi Kroub, the law firm that has filed more of these types of cases in NY than any other law firm. This case had been filed in NY Supreme Court in Queens against...

Brann & Isaacson Lawyers Get Another ADA Website Case Dismissed

Brann & Isaacson lawyers Peter Brann and Hannah Wurgaft obtained dismissal of another ADA website case in the Southern District of New York. On behalf of Electric Bike Technologies, they obtained court permission to file a motion to dismiss. Faced with that motion, rather than continue with the case, the plaintiff’s counsel, Mars Khaimov, who...

Brann & Isaacson Assists Another Client in Defeating an ADA Website Claim

Brann & Isaacson lawyers Peter Brann and Hannah Wurgaft assisted Electric Bike Technologies Inc. to fight off another ADA website claim. Previously, they took over from other defense counsel in federal court and once they made it clear to Mizrahi Kroub that Electric Bike intended to fight the claim, opposing counsel allowed the case to...

Brann & Isaacson Client Can Pursue Counterclaim in ADA Website “Settlement” Case

On behalf of Electric Bike Technologies, Brann & Isaacson lawyers Peter Brann and Hannah Wurgaft largely prevailed on a motion to dismiss a counterclaim in New York state court. Mizrahi Kroub claimed Electric Bike had previously settled a federal Americans with Disabilities Act website case. Electric Bike vigorously disputed that it had settled the case,...

Peter Brann Again Offers Popular Harvard Law Course

For the Fall 2023 term, partner Peter Brann will once more be offering his popular course at the Harvard Law School on “The Role of the State Attorney General.” Brann has team-taught this class at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard Law Schools with former Maine Attorney General James Tierney. Brann, who served as Maine’s State Solicitor...

Brann & Isaacson Wins Summary Judgment in Maine Design Patent Case

On August 29, 2023, U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy of the District of Maine granted a motion for summary judgment filed by Peter J. Brann, David Swetnam-Burland, and Stacy O. Stitham, on behalf of Brann & Isaacson client The Armaid Company. Judge Levy agreed with the B&I team that Armaid had not infringed a...

Mass. Federal Court Invalidates Eight Patents Asserted Against Wayfair

On August 16, 2023, U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton of the District of Massachusetts issued an order granting the vast majority of a motion to dismiss filed by Brann & Isaacson on behalf of its client, Wayfair. The plaintiff, a non-practicing entity called Alto Dynamics, asserted nine now expired patents against Wayfair in a...

Eleven Brann & Isaacson attorneys selected for inclusion in rankings published by The Best Lawyers in America© 2024

Included in The Best Lawyers in America (2024 Edition): George S. Isaacson, Commercial Litigation; Litigation and Controversy—Tax; Martin I. Eisenstein, Litigation and Controversy–Tax; Tax Law; David W. Bertoni, Tax Law Martha E. Greene, Trusts and Estates; Peter D. Lowe, Employment Law—Management; Benjamin W. Lund, Corporate Law; Real Estate Law; Peter J. Brann, Commercial Litigation; Litigation—Intellectual...