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Author: Sarai Escalona

WLF Asks Supreme Court to Review Decision Diluting Fifth Amendment Protection for Water Rights

November 26, 2025

By Sarai Escalona

WLF asked the United States Supreme Court to review, and ultimately to reverse, a lower court’s decision that the federal government’s forced reallocation of water does not constitute a physical taking under the Fifth Amendment.

WLF Urges Supreme Court to Stop Federal Judges from “Plaintiff Shopping”

November 17, 2025

By Sarai Escalona

WLF asked the United States Supreme Court to reverse a 40-year-old precedent that requires federal judges to take sides by recruiting possible co-plaintiffs in collective action cases.

WLF Asks Massachusetts High Court Not to Declare Publishing a Public Nuisance

November 14, 2025

By Sarai Escalona

WLF asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to shut down the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s effort to deem Instagram, one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, a “public nuisance” under that state’s laws.

WLF Urges Seventh Circuit to Rehear En Banc Misguided False Claims Act Ruling

November 3, 2025

By Sarai Escalona

WLF urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to grant rehearing en banc to reconsider its ruling that Eli Lilly violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by relying on a reasonable interpretation of ambiguous Medicaid Drug Rebate Program regulations.

WLF Asks Fifth Circuit to Grant En Banc Rehearing in Constitutional Challenge to FDIC’s Structure

October 16, 2025

By Sarai Escalona

WLF urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to grant rehearing en banc to revisit a panel’s flawed ruling that federal courts lack jurisdiction to enjoin FDIC enforcement actions under 12 U.S.C. § 1818(i)(1)

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