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  • August 15, 2025

    Getty Images Dismisses AI Copyright Suit With Intent To Refile In California

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Getty Images (US) Inc. on Aug. 14 notified a federal judge in Delaware that it was seeking voluntary dismissal of its artificial intelligence copyright suit without prejudice so that it may refile the action in a California federal court where Stability AI Ltd. argued the case properly belonged.

  • August 15, 2025

    Windows 10 User Says Microsoft Stopping Tech Support To Boost Its AI

    SAN DIEGO — A consumer filed a suit in California state court against Microsoft Corp. over its plans to cease offering technical support for its Windows 10 operating system (OS) in October 2025, claiming that it wants to drive users onto newer Microsoft products that use artificial intelligence so it can “monopolize the generative AI market” and failed to disclose that Windows 10 licenses were temporary in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).

  • August 14, 2025

    Musk Must Mount Fight Against UCL Counterclaims In OpenAI Suit, Judge Says

    SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk must face California unfair competition law (UCL) counterclaims stemming from his media interactions touting his attempts to buy OpenAI Inc. assets because the conduct is sufficiently divorced from courthouse advocacy to fall outside litigation privilege protections, a federal judge in California said, while also dismissing his breach of implied covenant and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims.

  • August 14, 2025

    Medical Providers Want Lawyers Disqualified For Expert’s AI Use

    SALT LAKE CITY — Two attorneys in a False Claims Act lawsuit should be disqualified for their role in submitting an expert whose artificial intelligence-generated report included a “litany of made-up quotes and sources,” medical providers say in Aug. 13 filings arguing that monetary sanctions are insufficient and that the court should stay the case.

  • August 13, 2025

    Anthropic, Amici Ask 9th Circuit For Review Of Class, Fair Use Rulings

    SAN FRANCISCO — A ruling denying summary judgment on claims that Anthropic PBC pirated and kept copyrighted works and a second one certifying a class of potentially impacted copyright holders is replete with individuality issues and notice manageability problems and the rushed class ruling prematurely forces the company to grapple with the possibility of billions of dollars in business-ruining damages, the company and various amici curiae tell a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in seeking immediate appeal.

  • August 13, 2025

    Judge Won’t Clarify How Opinion Came To Include Errors

    JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi federal judge who withdrew an opinion containing references to nonexistent parties, factual allegations and declarations denied a motion to preserve that opinion and for clarification, saying nothing required a court to preserve an opinion that was corrected and that the request for clarification exceeds Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60.

  • August 13, 2025

    Attorney Who Lost Husband Won’t Be Sanctioned For AI Errors

    CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York said he would not impose sanctions on an attorney whose filing included artificial intelligence-generated errors, noting that while such conduct currently plagues the justice system, in this case, the attorney recently lost her husband, acknowledged the impact that had on her work and indicated that she took steps to ensure that the mistake did not happen again.

  • August 12, 2025

    Magistrate Judge: Nonparty Microsoft Must Produce Licensing Info In AI Suit

    SAN FRANCISCO — Nonparty Microsoft Corp. must produce documents related to artificial intelligence training material licensing deals because the evidence goes to the existence of any market for that material and to the potential damages the class of authors suffered, a federal magistrate judge in California said in consolidated litigation involving MosaicML Inc. and Databricks Inc.

  • August 12, 2025

    Judge Won’t Stay AI Case While Anthropic Appeals Class Cert, Fair Use Rulings

    SAN FRANCISCO — Any appeal by Anthropic PBC of a ruling rejecting fair use defenses for pirating copyrighted works or granting class certification should involve a full record, and to the extent going to trial financially threatens the artificial intelligence company, that reality would be the outcome of its own conduct, a federal judge in California said Aug. 11 in declining to stay the case pending appeal.

  • August 12, 2025

    Magistrate Judge: Nonparty Microsoft Must Produce Licensing Info In AI Suit

    SAN FRANCISCO — Nonparty Microsoft Corp. must produce documents related to artificial intelligence training material licensing deals because the evidence goes to the existence of any market for that material and to the potential damages the class of authors suffered, a federal magistrate judge in California said in consolidated litigation involving MosaicML Inc. and Databricks Inc.

  • August 08, 2025

    Expert Withdrawn After AI Use Causes ‘Litany’ of Errors in False Claims Suit

    SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge in Utah in an Aug. 7 docket-only order denied as moot a motion to exclude expert testimony after the plaintiff withdrew the expert report following disclosures that the expert’s use of artificial intelligence had led to fabricated quotations, citations and regulatory references.

  • August 08, 2025

    Pro Se Plaintiffs’ Failure To Comply With AI Certifications Nets Different Results

    In a pair of rulings, federal courts in Georgia and North Carolina confronted pro se plaintiffs who failed to include required artificial intelligence certifications with their briefing, with one court striking a plaintiff’s summary judgment motion and issuing an order to show cause involving potentially hallucinated citations and the other finding that AI disclosure acts as a shield for the court, not a sword to strike filings.

  • August 07, 2025

    Woman Claiming OpenAI Abandoned Safety Efforts Says Congress Left AI To States

    HONOLULU — With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Congress rejected thoughts of federal preemption and left it to the states to regulate artificial intelligence, a woman says in a supplemental brief admitted by a federal judge in Hawaii in a design defect and product liability suit alleging that OpenAI Inc. abandoned its commitment to safety.

  • August 06, 2025

    AI Creator, Others Secure Summary Judgment In Political Speech Law Challenge

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a text-only docket order issued Aug. 5 after a hearing, a federal judge in California granted summary judgment to plaintiffs led by a man who uses artificial intelligence to create mocking political images on one of two challenges to laws designed to limit distribution of deceptive political content, leaving a challenge to the second law for a later time.

  • August 05, 2025

    Judge Disqualifies Attorneys For AI Errors In Briefs

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Three attorneys who filed documents with artificial intelligence-generated errors must notify clients and courts where they practice of the issue and are disqualified from further participation in a prisoner’s case alleging civil rights abuses, a federal judge in Alabama said while concluding that sanctions by previous courts did not do enough to prevent the “egregious” conduct in this case.

  • August 05, 2025

    Chatbots Are ‘Word Guessers,’ Judge Says In Sanctioning Attorneys $1,485

    FLINT, Mich. — Plaintiffs’ counsel must compensate defense counsel $1,485 for time spent responding to briefing with artificial intelligence-generated fake quotes, a federal judge in Michigan said in imposing sanctions and explaining that AI chatbots are more like “word guessers” designed to output probabilistic text than AIs featured in science fiction novels.

  • August 05, 2025

    Education Material Provider’s AI Antitrust Suit Fails, Google Says

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — An education content provider cannot show reciprocal dealing from its relationship with Google LLC or that the two have any relationship that requires the latter to refer users to the former’s website rather than provide artificial intelligence-generated responses to user queries, the company says in moving to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed in a federal court in the District of Columbia.

  • July 30, 2025

    COMMENTARY: AI In Construction Arbitration – A Fast-Evolving Landscape

    By Peter Rosher, Alison Eslick and Alice Jones

  • August 04, 2025

    Judge Sanctions Lawyer $85,567.75 For ‘Bad Faith’ After Repeated AI Errors

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida ordered an attorney to compensate opposing parties $85,567.75 in fees and costs for his repeated misuse of artificial intelligence in addition to dismissing the cases after concluding that even if the initial uses of the technology were reasonable, the ongoing errors were not.

  • August 01, 2025

    Defendants Want Court’s Explanation For Error-Riddled Order

    JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge in Mississippi should explain how a ruling came to include nonexistent parties, facts and quotes and preserve both the original incorrect opinion and a subsequently issued replacement, defendants in a case challenging a state law banning the teaching of “divisive” topics say.  The plaintiffs moved to file a second amended complaint in the wake of Trump v. CASA, which limits injunctions to named parties.

  • August 01, 2025

    Meta Stole, Distributed Porn To Train AI, Companies Allege

    SAN FRANCISCO — Meta Platforms Inc. torrented thousands of adult films that provide unique human interactions and facial expressions during the training of the large language models behind artificial intelligence that output video, two companies say in a copyright infringement suit filed in a federal court in California.

  • August 01, 2025

    Microsoft, GitHub Respond To Coders’ AI Appeal; Amici Warn Of ‘Super-Copyright’

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Coders have not shown that artificial intelligences produce code identical to their own, and interpreting federal law to cover works that merely resemble a copyrighted work would produce “staggering” results, Microsoft Corp. and online code platform GitHub told the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a response brief.  Meanwhile, in a quartet of amicus curiae briefs, the court heard that reading the identicality requirement broadly would undermine the purpose of copyright law and threaten create a “super-copyright” and encourage dubious litigation.

  • July 31, 2025

    Judge Strikes Some Defenses, Complains Of ‘Gamesmanship’ In Musk-Altman Battle

    SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk and Samuel Altman are participating in “gamesmanship” in their litigation against each other, a federal judge in California said in declining to wade through the “excessive affirmative defenses” and an overreaching motion to strike them and instead eliminating only the 16 “clearly immaterial” ones.

  • July 31, 2025

    Judge Allows Briefing On Surviving Distribution Claim After AI Copyright Rulings

    SAN FRANCISCO — A fair use ruling in an artificial intelligence copyright case left alive a “leeching and seeding” claim involving Meta Platforms Inc.’s alleged distribution of protected works through torrenting and the parties can work out a schedule for summary judgment briefing on the issue, a federal judge in California said.

  • July 30, 2025

    Judge Certifies AI Class; Plaintiffs Say No Reason For Immediate Fair Use Appeal

    SAN FRANCISCO — After a judge certified a class in an artificial intelligence copyright suit, the plaintiffs pushed back on Anthropic PBC’s request for immediate appeal of a fair use ruling, saying an interlocutory appeal will prevent the company from having to go to trial.