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  • December 09, 2025

    Calif. Court Imposes $5K Sanction For Fake Citations In Workplace Violence Case

    LOS ANGELES — A California appellate court imposed a $5,000 sanction on an attorney who filed a brief that miscited case holdings and a case cite and largely published a previously unpublished opinion affirming that a firefighter’s complaints about workplace conditions and references to a recent shooting involving a colleague warranted a workplace violence restraining order.

  • December 08, 2025

    COMMENTARY: D&O Liability & Coverage: 2025 Trends, Developments & Decisions

    By Scott M. Seaman and Pedro E. Hernandez

  • December 05, 2025

    COMMENTARY: Deepfakes In Litigation: Navigating Suspicion, Evidence And Forensic Analysis

    By Phil Beckett

  • December 08, 2025

    High Court Rejects Bid To Consider Federal Circuit 1st Impression AI Patent Ruling

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 8 rejected a machine learning patent holder’s petition for a writ of certiorari in which the company contended that the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling on a matter of first impression that affirmed the invalidation of the patents for describing the abstract concept of machine learning without pointing to specific improvements was erroneous; the company told the high court that the Federal Circuit’s approach to patent eligibility “flouts this Court’s instruction to consider preemption.”

  • December 08, 2025

    Judge Issues Judgment Outlining Injunctions In Antitrust Suits Against Google

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In consolidated suits in which a District of Columbia federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the judge on Dec. 5 issued an opinion and final judgment outlining prohibitory injunctions, including requiring Google not to condition the licensing of Google Play on the distribution or license “of any Google GenAI [emerging generative artificial intelligence] Product on any device sold in the United States.”

  • December 05, 2025

    Judge Rebukes AI Use By Plaintiff In Counterfeiting Suit Against New Balance

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An “experienced” pro se litigant’s response to New Balance Athletics Inc.’s motion to dismiss his trademark infringement suit was riddled with factual errors, thanks to his use of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) program in drafting the response, an Arkansas federal judge held; the judge struck the response to the motion but also denied the motion itself.

  • December 05, 2025

    Oregon Appeals Court Sanctions Attorney Over Fake Cites, Quotes

    PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Court of Appeals sanctioned an attorney $2,000 for submitting a brief containing two fake citations and a fake quotation but said the respondent can refile a corrected version of the previously stricken brief with certain restrictions.

  • December 05, 2025

    Indictment Claims ChatGPT Encouraged Man’s Harassing Conduct Toward Women

    PITTSBURGH — A man used ChatGPT as a therapist and best friend and cited its encouragement as he messaged women without their consent and frequented gyms to find a wife, where he harassed the women and employees of the businesses, the United States alleges in an indictment.

  • December 05, 2025

    9th Circuit Affirms TRO Enjoining OpenAI From Use Of ‘IO’ Mark

    SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) that bars a company recently purchased by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI LLC from using marks that could potentially cause confusion with another technology company with a similarly pronounced name.

  • December 04, 2025

    Magistrate Judge Affirms OpenAI Must Produce 20 Million ChatGPT Chat Logs

    SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI Inc. defendants must produce 20 million ChatGPT outputs in a consolidated copyright action against it, a magistrate judge in New York affirmed in denying a motion for reconsideration after finding the evidence relevant and proportionate.

  • December 04, 2025

    Judge Certifies Alexa Voice ID Biometric Data Class Suit, Excludes Named Plaintiff

    CHICAGO — A named plaintiff who signed up for Amazon.com Inc.’s Voice ID program after the filing of a suit would be subject to unique defenses that render him unfit to be a class representative, a federal judge in Illinois said while certifying claims that the company violated Illinois law by collecting certain biometric data through its Alexa artificial intelligence system.

  • December 04, 2025

    Bloomberg Must Face Book Copyright Owners’ Suit, Judge Says

    NEW YORK — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and others successfully allege copyright ownership and that two Bloomberg companies used their protected works as training material for their artificial intelligence, a federal judge in New York said in denying a motion to dismiss.

  • December 04, 2025

    Magistrate Judge Orders OpenAI To Produce Dataset-Deletion Communications

    NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. entities waived any attorney-client privilege protecting communications by offering shifting positions that resulted in the disclosure of some of the purportedly privileged reasons for the deletions and by putting their state of mind at issue, a federal magistrate judge in New York said in ordering production of the evidence.

  • December 04, 2025

    Google Accuses AI Copyright Plaintiffs Of ‘Litigation-By-Ambush’

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google LLC opposed a motion to certify a class action and asked a federal judge in California to strike the allegations with prejudice as a sanction for artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ “midnight switch” of proposed classes and subclasses.

  • November 26, 2025

    Supreme Court Seeks Response In ‘Paradise’ AI Art Copyright Case

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — One day after distributing a case for conference, the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 26 asked for a response from the federal government in a case in which a man claims that lower courts erred by finding that his artificial intelligence-generated artwork was not entitled to copyright protections.  The man previously asked the court to stay the case while courts decide whether Shira Perlmutter can continue to serve as head of the U.S. Copyright Office.

  • November 26, 2025

    DOJ Files Proposed Judgment In Antitrust Row With Rental Market Software Company

    GREENSBORO, N.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a proposed final judgment in a North Carolina federal court in an antitrust suit against RealPage Inc., a commercial revenue management software company, alleging that RealPage used nonpublic information obtained from landlords and runs the information through its algorithmic software to align pricing, thereby impeding the free market process.

  • November 25, 2025

    Bankruptcy Judge Reprimands Gordon Rees Attorney For AI Misuse

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal bankruptcy judge publicly reprimanded a Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani attorney, revoked her pro hac vice status and ordered her to provide a copy of a ruling detailing artificial intelligence misuse “so egregious that it could only be construed as to have been committed in bad faith.”

  • November 25, 2025

    Judge Terminates Case Of Pro Se Plaintiffs She Says Submitted AI-Altered Evidence

    OAKLAND, Calif. — A California judge upheld a sanction terminating pro se plaintiffs’ action for submitting what she found to be artificial intelligence-generated or otherwise altered videos and text messages as exhibits in a landlord-tenant case.

  • November 21, 2025

    COMMENTARY: Testing The Boundaries Of Product Liability For AI Products: How To Hold An Insurance Company Liable For AI Errors

    By Jamie O’Neill and Abigail Damsky

  • November 24, 2025

    Parties Brief Court On AI Overview Murder Defamation Case Issues

    CHICAGO — Should a case claiming that Google LLC’s AI Overview tool defamed a public individual by reporting that he was once convicted of a drug crime and was currently serving a life sentence for multiple murders proceed past a pending motion to dismiss, the trial would take approximately a week, parties tell a federal judge in Illinois in a joint status report.

  • November 13, 2025

    COMMENTARY: Summarising With AI, Reviewing With Care: The Use Of AI By Arbitrators – And What That Means For Advocates

    By Fiona Cain, Jack Spence, Michael Mazzone and Harry Phillips

  • November 20, 2025

    Judge Relates Suits Alleging Salesforce Pirated AI Training Material

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted a joint stipulation relating two actions accusing Salesforce Inc. of pirating copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence.

  • November 19, 2025

    Lawyer, Firm Sanctioned $3,000, Must Pay Attorney Fees For Fake Cites, Conduct

    DENVER — An attorney’s conduct after being notified that a complaint and other documents contained potential artificial intelligence-generated fake citations “unreasonably and vexatiously multiplied” the litigation and warrants a $3,000 sanction against her and her firm and an award of attorney fees, a federal judge in Colorado said.

  • November 18, 2025

    Judge Imposes $500 Sanction On Lawyer For Fake Cites In Employment Case

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A $500 sanction for erroneous citations should not be seen as a “Luddite attack” on artificial intelligence but as a reminder that lawyers must handle the evolving technology with “diligence and care,” a federal judge in Connecticut said Nov. 17.

  • November 17, 2025

    Canadian AI Company Must Face Copyright Claims, Federal Judge Says

    NEW YORK — Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc. must face news publishers’ allegations that its Command product outputs copyrighted works and misattributes trademarks, a federal judge in New York said in denying a motion for partial dismissal.