When a federal judge in Miami dismissed yet another lawsuit by an American seeking recourse against a corporation for using property seized long ago by the Cuban government, the decision called into question whether any of the cases may succeed.

More than two dozen cases were filed after 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 that purportedly traffic in Cuban property owned privately before the 1959 communist revolution.