2024
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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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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Brann & Isaacson Obtain Dismissal of Another Website Accessibility Case
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & 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...
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Brann & Isaacson Lawyers Get Another ADA Website Case Dismissed
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & 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...
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Brann & Isaacson Assists Another Client in Defeating an ADA Website Claim
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & 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...
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Brann & Isaacson Client Can Pursue Counterclaim in ADA Website “Settlement” Case
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsOn 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,...
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B&I Lawyers Prevail in another ADA Website Case
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & Isaacson lawyers Peter Brann and Hannah Wurgaft prevailed in another federal lawsuit claiming that a website was inaccessible under the ADA, this time in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of major internet retailer Crutchfield. The court agreed with them that the plaintiff lacked standing to bring the lawsuit and that...
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Brann & Isaacson Lawyers Obtain Dismissals of Two More ADA Website Accessibility Cases
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & Isaacson lawyers, Peter Brann and Hannah Wurgaft, obtained dismissals in two more ADA website accessibility cases in New York and California, on behalf of TackleDirect and JP Boden. In the New York case, they filed a motion to dismiss, and the plaintiff’s counsel, Mizrahi Kroub, which files more of these cases in New York than anyone...
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Brann & Isaacson Brief Prompts Dismissal of Another ADA Website Accessibility Case
David Swetnam-Burland / 0 CommentsBrann & Isaacson lawyers, Peter Brann and Hannah Wurgaft, filed a request to submit a “friend of the court” brief in support of a Texas donut shop that had been sued in New York claiming that its website was inaccessible to blind people. This lawsuit was one of about 2,000 such cases that have been filed in the...
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