( May 15, 2025, 8:53 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Wells Fargo & Co. petitioned the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for permission to appeal a California federal judge’s order granting class certification to a group of shareholders in their suit filed against Wells Fargo and certain of its executives after news of the company’s practice of using fake interviews to give the impression of complying with internal diversity hiring practices led to a drop in stock value, arguing the investors had not provided evidence that their damages can be measured on a classwide basis....