49 Years of
Keeping Free
Enterprise Free.

Washington Legal Foundation

The nation’s premier public-interest law firm & policy center

Join Us

Who We Are

WLF is a national public-interest law firm and legal policy center. Our mission is to defend American free enterprise by litigating, educating, and advocating for a free market, a limited and accountable government, individual and business civil liberties, and the rule of law.

Learn More

What We Do

WLF’s vital work to uphold the legal principles that support our free enterprise system are categorized into:

  1. Combating Litigation Abuse
  2. Defending the Rule of Law
  3. Opposing Overregulation
  4. Protecting Economic Liberties

Litigation

Litigation is the backbone of WLF’s public-interest efforts. WLF litigates before state and federal courts and agencies nationwide. WLF’s litigation team takes a multi-faceted approach to protect and uphold the legal principles that support our free-enterprise system.

Learn More

Legal Studies

Successfully advocating for a legal and regulatory environment that fosters free enterprise requires the timely dissemination and steady reinforcement of compelling arguments and ideas to those lawyers and jurists who shape the law.

Learn More

The Latest

WLF Legal Pulse
April 22, 2026

Cisco Systems v. Doe: Clarifying the Alien Tort Statute’s Original Intent

In Cisco v. Doe, the Supreme Court should recover the Alien Tort Statute's original purpose by holding that nonresident foreigners cannot sue under the law.

Read more
WLF Legal Pulse
April 21, 2026

Update: Victory for Home Distillers and Limited Government

The Fifth Circuit held that two sections of a tax law that prohibit home distilling exceed Congress's power to tax and are neither necessary nor proper provisions to carry out taxation.

Read more
Press Releases
April 17, 2026

In WLF Victory, Supreme Court Rejects Narrow Reading of Federal-Officer Removal Statute

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish

Today the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that narrowly interpreted the federal-officer removal statute to deny federal contractors access to federal courts.

Read more
Press Releases
April 15, 2026

WLF Asks Eleventh Circuit to Reject Unlawful FDA Disclaimers for Tobacco Ads and Cigarette Packs

Philip Morris v. FDA

WLF urged the 11th Circuit to affirm a lower court's ruling that FDA unlawfully withheld data that cast doubt on its choice to impose graphic cigarette-pack warnings.

Read more

California Plaintiffs’ Pen-Register Nonsense: IP Addresses Are Not Illegal Surveillance Tools

Lawsuits that allege a business' logging of a website visitor's IP address or use of third-party pixels are akin to wiretapping misuse a California invasion of privacy law and should be dismissed.

Read more

Judicial Science Manual Under Fire: The FJC–NASEM Controversy That Won’t Go Away

Climate-change litigation partisans' involvement in a scientific-evidence manual for federal judges has tainted the credibility of the document and its publishers, a circumstance that jurists must consider when reading it.

Read more
Press Releases
April 15, 2026

WLF Urges Ninth Circuit to Grant Interlocutory Appeal in Flawed Securities Class Action

In re NVIDIA Corporation Securities Litigation

Joined by the Nat'l Assoc. of Manufacturers, WLF asked the 9th Circuit to immediately hear an appeal of a class certification in a securities fraud case.

Read more

SUPPORT WLF

Get Involved

We are ever mindful of the special privilege we have 
in representing the public interest. None of WLF’s accomplishments are possible without the generous 
support of our allies.

Donate

As an independent, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization, WLF relies on charitable contributions to carry out its singular mission.

Donate

Volunteer

WLF prides itself on its extensive and dedicated pro bono network,who offer their time and expertise to help us achieve our goals.

Volunteer

Subscribe to our mailing list