This WLF Litigation Division feature highlights WLF court and agency filings, as well as decisions issued in response to WLF’s filings. In this edition, we list June 2025 filings and outcomes.
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FILINGS
- WLF joins TechFreedom in asking the Ninth Circuit to clarify that a federal court’s power to grant equitable relief does not extend to directly enforcing a State’s laws against the rest of the country. (Epic v. Apple)
- WLF urges the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to rein in excessive noneconomic damages awards. (Gill v. Exxon Mobil)
- WLF asks the Supreme Court to grant expedited review of the President’s statutory authority to impose tariffs. (Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump)
- WLF asks the Florida Supreme Court to clarify the heightened evidentiary standard for amending a complaint to add punitive damages claims. (Perlmutter v. Federal Insurance Company)
- WLF urges the Ninth Circuit to affirm a district court’s post-verdict entry of judgment as a matter of law where the antitrust plaintiff offered no reliable means of measuring antitrust damages. (Ninth Inning v. NFL)
- WLF asks the Supreme Court to review a controversial securities case out of the Second Circuit. (BDO USA, LLP v. New Eng. Carpenters Guar. Annu. Funds)
ACTIVITY
- The Supreme Court declines yet another petition seeking clarification about “no-injury” class actions. (State Farm v. Jama)
- A sharply divided panel of the Ninth Circuit affirms a class-certification order in unwieldy civil-RICO case. (Painters Fund v. Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.)
- The Supreme Court declines to review a Third Circuit decision that muddies when federal drug-labeling law preempts a plaintiff’s state-law failure-to-warn claim. (Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht)
- The Supreme Court reverses a controversial First Circuit decision about aiding-and-abetting liability. (Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos)
- The Supreme Court dismisses as improvidently granted an important case about the limits of federal-court jurisdiction. (Labcorp v. Davis)
- IQVIA voluntarily dismissed its petition seeking Supreme Court review of a controversial personal-jurisdiction decision from a California state court. (IQVIA v. Superior Court)