2024
Martha Greene Again Honored by Maine Court for Pro Bono Service
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsThe Maine Supreme Judicial Court has once again recognized Brann & Isaacson partner Martha Greene for her commitment to providing legal services to under-served communities by awarding her Katahdin Counsel status for 2024. The Katahdin Counsel Recognition Program honors Maine attorneys who have completed 50 or more hours of pro bono legal work, meaning work...
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Eamonn Hart named Brann & Isaacson Partner
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & Isaacson is pleased to name Eamonn Hart as a Partner. Hart has earned the trust of clients and peers alike through a strong track record of creative, responsive, and effective legal advice navigating challenging cases. Since joining the firm in 2018, Hart has provided general, commercial, and trust & estate litigation counsel to...
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Peter Brann’s Popular Harvard Law Course Returns
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsPeter 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...
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Jamie Szal and Matt Pick Discuss Nonprofit Tax Planning in MaineBiz
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsOn August 26, 2024, MaineBiz published “How Maine nonprofits can prepare for the 2025 sales tax exemption” by B&I attorneys Jamie Szal and Matt Pick. As the title suggests, Szal and Pick walk readers through new Maine sales tax exemptions going into effect in January 2025. Until this legislation, Maine was the only New England...
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CPSC Overreach? Federal Agency Commandeers Amazon Marketplace
David Bertoni / 0 CommentsThe Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) appears to be yet another federal agency seeking to expand dramatically its power over commerce. In what could be described as an extraordinary example of CPSC overreach, the agency has deemed Amazon.com Inc. (“Amazon”) to be a “distributor” for purposes of the Consumer Product Safety Act (“CPSA”), making it...
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Children’s Privacy: Federal Regulations Are About To Change
David Bertoni / 0 CommentsIs Your Website “Directed to Children” Under 13? None of this matters unless you operate a website or provide an online service that is “directed to children” under the age of thirteen. Under COPPA, however, this is a holistic, i.e., mushy, question. And general businesses have gotten caught in the crosshairs. The FTC looks at...
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Peter Brann Quoted in Wall Street Journal on ADA Website Suits
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & 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...
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B&I Lawyers File Yet Another Motion to Dismiss ADA Website Case
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & 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...
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Online Wiretapping Claims: A Surging Menace
David Bertoni / 0 CommentsA flood of lawsuits and arbitration demands continues to drown companies that have installed the Meta pixel on their websites. If you haven’t been on the receiving end of these online wiretapping claims, count yourself lucky. Either way, be forewarned that the risk of being subject to a wiretapping shakedown extends far beyond the Meta...
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B&I Lawyers Seek Dismissal of Another ADA Website Case
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & 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...
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