When a federal judge in Miami earlier this month dismissed yet another lawsuit by a U.S. individual seeking recourse against a corporation for using property seized long ago by the Cuban government, it called into question whether any of the cases may succeed.

More than two dozen cases have been filed since the Trump administration allowed Title III of the Helms-Burton Act to take effect in May 2019. The move gave U.S. citizens the green light to pursue litigation against entities who purportedly traffic in Cuban property that had been privately owned prior to the 1959 communist revolution.