On June 18, 2025, WLF filed an amicus brief with the Florida Supreme Court, urging it to insist on a high evidentiary threshold for trial judges considering amendments to add punitive damages claims. WLF’s brief was prepared with pro bono assistance from Frank Cruz-Alvarez and David M. Menichetti of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. In its amicus brief urging the court to affirm a heightened standard for adding punitive damages claims, WLF argued that such a standard protects defendants from overly broad and invasive discovery until a claim is substantiated. To that end, WLF urged the Court to reject petitioners’ contention that trial courts need consider only one side of the story—the claimant’s side—before making this determination.
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