Plaintiffs lawyers vying for leadership roles in the multidistrict litigation over alleged iPhone battery defects have filed competing motions over whether their proposals adhere to recent court rulings, such as an influential decision in the Anthem data breach case.

In a motion for lead counsel filed on Thursday, Joseph Cotchett, of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy in Burlingame, and Laurence King, of San Francisco’s Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer, said their proposed slate of more than 40 attorneys had the “resources necessary to finance a case of this magnitude.”