This WLF Litigation Division feature highlights WLF court filings, as well as decisions issued in response to WLF’s court filings. In this edition, we list March 2024 filings and results.
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Filings
WLF files a supplemental amicus letter with the Third Circuit explaining why federal trial courts lack jurisdiction to enforce OSHA’s nonfinal orders. (Gulden v. Exxon Mobil)
WLF asks the Supreme Court of Texas to properly apply the apex doctrine. (In re The Cordish Company and Bayou Limited Partnership)
WLF urges the Supreme Court to hear an important case about basic fairness in the regulatory process. (Lotus Vaping Technologies v. FDA)
WLF asks the Supreme Court of California to review a radical new theory of liability for pharmaceutical manufacturers. (In re Gilead Tenofovir Cases)
Results
The Supreme Court of Texas denies mandamus in a case implicating the apex doctrine. (In re The Cordish Company and Bayou Limited Partnership)
The Fifth Circuit upholds the FDA’s graphic warnings regime for tobacco products and advertising against a First Amendment challenge. (RJ Reynolds v. FDA)
The SEC adopts a rule requiring many American companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse-gas emissions. (In re Climate-Related Disclosure Rule)