Brann, Peter

Peter Brann’s Popular Harvard Law Course Returns

Peter Brann is again offering his popular course at the Harvard Law School on “The Role of the State Attorney General” for Fall 2024. For years now, Brann has team-taught this class at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard Law Schools with former Maine Attorney General James Tierney. Brann served as Maine’s State Solicitor before joining Brann...

Peter Brann Quoted in Wall Street Journal on ADA Website Suits

Brann & Isaacson lawyer Peter Brann was quoted in the Wall Street Journal in an article entitled “The Law Firm Hitting Businesses With Thousands of Disability Suits” (subscription may be required), about the most prolific filer of website accessibility lawsuits last year, the law firm Mizrahi Kroub. According to the reporting of the Wall Street...

B&I Lawyers File Yet Another Motion to Dismiss ADA Website Case

Brann & Isaacson lawyers Peter Brann and Hannah Wurgaft filed a motion to dismiss yet another ADA website accessibility case filed in New York, this time against a serial plaintiff represented by Stein Saks, which has filed more class action complaints nationwide than any other law firm since 2021. The defendant, once again, is a...

B&I Lawyers Seek Dismissal of Another ADA Website Case

Brann & Isaacson lawyers Peter Brann and Hannah Wurgaft sought dismissal of another of the thousands of cases being filed in state and federal court in New York alleging that a small retailer was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not making its website accessible to blind people. They filed a motion to dismiss...

Fourteen Brann & Isaacson Attorneys Honored by Super Lawyers for 2024

Brann & Isaacson congratulates attorneys honored by Super Lawyers for 2024. Brann & Isaacson attorneys listed in the 2024 New England Super Lawyers include: Martin I. Eisenstein (Tax, Business Litigation, Business/Corporate) David W. Bertoni (Class Action/Mass Torts, Consumer Law, Tax) Ben Lund (Real Estate, Business/Corporate) Martha E. Greene (Estate Planning & Probate, Nonprofit Organizations, Estate...

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...