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October 27, 2025
Judge Joins Cases Against Otter.ai Related To Notetaker App Privacy Concerns

SAN FRANCISCO — A judge in California federal court has consolidated litigation brought by individuals who argue that Otter.ai Inc. does not obtain prior consent of all participants in a virtual meeting before its Notetaker transcription app is engaged to record a conversation, ruling that claims brought by multiple plaintiffs involve substantially similar allegations and claims.
October 24, 2025
Judges Tell Senator Human Error And AI Led To Faulty Rulings

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, on Oct. 23 released letters he received from inquires into the use of artificial intelligence, with the Administrative Office overseeing federal courts’ consideration of rule changes underway and two judges admitting that the use of the technology caused two erroneous rulings.
October 23, 2025
Reddit Says Perplexity Evades Digital Defenses, Scrapes Data For AI

NEW YORK — In an Oct. 22 lawsuit filed in a New York federal court, Reddit Inc. says Perplexity AI Inc. and a trio of internet data scraping companies act as modern-day bank robbers by intentionally circumventing digital defenses and scraping the valuable content protected by those efforts.
October 22, 2025
Judge: No Contempt, But Lawyer Must Explain Brief’s Fake Cites

CLEVELAND — An attorney avoided contempt for what a judge termed the “inexcusable” delay in responding to a court order but will ultimately have to show cause why she shouldn’t be sanctioned for submitting fake citations likely created by artificial intelligence, a federal judge in Ohio said.
October 22, 2025
Judge: Pro Se Plaintiff May Not Use AI In Drafting Amended Complaint

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — A man may proceed in forma pauperis but must personally draft any amended complaint without using artificial intelligence after he filed what a federal judge in Arizona said appears to be a ChatGPT-created complaint listing legal authority and statutes but without any factual allegations.
October 22, 2025
Judge Issues Pro Se Plaintiffs Order To Show Cause In Wake Of Cite, Quote Issues

DENVER — Suggesting the possibility that two pro se plaintiffs used artificial intelligence to craft filings, a “deeply troubled” federal magistrate judge in Colorado ordered them to show cause how multiple filings came to be “rife” with fake citations, misstated legal principles and “improperly quoted material.”
October 21, 2025
Judge Lifts Arbitration Stay In Family’s Chatbot Negligence Suit

MARSHALL, Texas — A federal magistrate judge in Texas lifted a stay of one minor plaintiff’s strict liability and negligence claims against Character Technologies Inc. and others over the allegedly harmful effects the company’s chatbots have on minors after the plaintiff reported that the claims were found by an arbitrator to be outside the arbitration provision at issue.
October 20, 2025
AI Image App Bidder Wants Supreme Court To Look At ‘Interested Party’ Case

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Because only one court enjoys jurisdiction over government contract bidding process challenges, a divided en banc ruling defining who qualifies as an interested party will stand absent U.S. Supreme Court review, artificial intelligence image company Percipient.ai Inc. says in a petition for a writ of certiorari.
October 20, 2025
Minor Sues Over ClothOff AI That Turns Images Into ‘Hyperrealistic’ Porn

TRENTON, N.J. — A minor and her parents claim in a New Jersey federal lawsuit that defendants offer their ClothOff website as artificial intelligence capable of rendering nearly anyone nude without implementing the safeguards necessary to prevent the creation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or nonconsensual intimate images (NCII).
October 20, 2025
Liberty Mutual Must Explain Why Briefs Included Citation Errors, Judge Says

ST. LOUIS — An insurance company must show why it should not be sanctioned for filing erroneous citations, at least one of which appeared twice, a federal judge in Missouri said in finding it “simply not credible” that the mistakes were clerical errors.
October 17, 2025
Unions Sue USCIS, DHS, ICE, State Department Over AI Social Media Surveillance

NEW YORK — Three labor unions on Oct. 16 sued the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and their leaders in New York federal court, asserting that the defendants have “targeted” U.S.-based visa holders and permanent residents by using artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance of social media to “detect disfavored viewpoints and to take adverse immigration action based on those viewpoints” in violation of the First Amendment rights of “noncitizens lawfully present” in the United States.
October 17, 2025
Judge Touts Fort Worth’s Vibrancy; Declines Transfer Of Apple AI Antitrust Suit

FORT WORTH, Texas — Since litigants in X Corp.’s antitrust suit against Apple Inc. appear ready to litigate in Fort Worth despite the case’s weak connection to the jurisdiction, they should consider moving to the “vibrant” and growing city, a federal judge in Texas said Oct. 16 in declining to transfer the suit.
October 17, 2025
Judge Won’t Hasten Damages Deadline, Says Anthropic Must Face Copyright Claims

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a pair of rulings, a federal judge in California said she would not hasten previous deadlines for music publishers to produce damages estimates and that the artificial intelligence copyright claims against Anthropic PBC may proceed.
October 16, 2025
OpenAI Says Hawaii Man’s Complaints About AI Not Grounds For Injunction

HONOLULU — A man’s allegations about potential future harms Hawaii faces from artificial intelligence do not suffice for injury purposes and are at best not redressable by enjoining OpenAI Inc. from operating in the state, the company told a federal judge.
October 15, 2025
Copyright Protection Extends To AI Images, Man Tells Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Copyright protections are in place to ensure dissemination of creative works to the public and are invoked even when a human is not the creator and should apply to artificial intelligence-generated outputs for the same reasons, a man tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a petition for a writ of certiorari.
October 15, 2025
California Governor Vetoes 1 Chatbot Safety Measure As Other AI Bills Become Law

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill imposing some restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence and providing some civil penalties for noncompliance while vetoing a more restrictive chatbot measure that would have required such technology to be unable to encourage self-harm, suicidal ideation, violence, the use of illegal substances or disordered eating.
October 14, 2025
OpenAI, News Plaintiffs Reach Agreement Ending ChatGPT Output Preservation

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities will no longer have to preserve all ChatGPT outputs after reaching an agreement with news plaintiffs about the scope of what must be saved for copyright litigation consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
October 14, 2025
Microsoft Accused Of Harming Competition With OpenAI Partnership

SAN FRANCISCO — A group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers on Oct. 13 filed a putative class action in California federal court against Microsoft Corp., seeking treble damages and injunctive relief — including “the divestiture or segregation of Microsoft’s Generative AI” business — based on allegations that Microsoft limited OpenAI’s access to computational power and drove up ChatGPT prices while promoting its own chatbot in competition with OpenAI.
October 14, 2025
AI ‘Paste And Pray’ Strategy Behind Document Errors, Defendants Tell Court

HOUSTON — A plaintiff’s misrepresentations about a case and failure to check the outputs of artificial intelligence demonstrate a “flippant attitude toward the truth” that leaves opposing counsel and the court to bear the burden of ensuring the accuracy of the record, defendants tell a federal judge in Texas in defending their motion for sanctions.
October 10, 2025
Renters Seek Approval Of $141M In Settlements With 27 RealPage MDL Defendants

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Renters asked a federal judge in Tennessee to preliminarily approve $141,800,000 in settlements with 27 property management companies in the RealPage Inc. artificial intelligence pricing multidistrict litigation, saying that in addition to monetary relief the defendants agreed to provide continued assistance that will be useful at trial.
October 10, 2025
Judge Wants OpenAI’s Response To Motion For Restraining Order

HONOLULU — A federal judge in Hawaii on Oct. 9 ordered OpenAI Inc. to file a response after a woman who claims that ChatGPT poses a special risk to the state filed an amended complaint and asked the court to enjoin the use of artificial intelligence in the state.
October 09, 2025
Justice Awards Attorney Fees In Legal World’s Latest ‘Unfortunate Chapter’ With AI

NEW YORK — A lawyer’s error-riddled filings and initial failure to admit how they came to be add the latest “unfortunate chapter to the story of artificial intelligence misuse in the legal profession,” a New York justice said in awarding attorney fees and costs as a sanction.
October 09, 2025
Judge Wants Jurisdiction Briefing In Apple-ChatGPT Integration Antitrust Suit

FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal judge in Texas ordered expedited briefing on jurisdiction in an antitrust suit challenging ChatGPT’s integration into certain Apple Inc. smartphone products. OpenAI entities and Apple recently sought dismissal, telling the judge that the deal is not exclusive under antitrust law, doesn’t foreclose on competition and hasn’t injured plaintiffs X Corp. or x.AI LLC.
October 08, 2025
Anthropic Must Face Copyright Claims As It Fights For Damages Disclosures

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge in California said music publishers’ artificial intelligence copyright claims against Anthropic PBC may proceed just days after the company asked for relief from a magistrate judge’s conclusion that the case’s novelty and complexity permitted delaying the disclosure of potential damages.
October 08, 2025
Judge: Brief Correcting AI Errors May Not Contain New Arguments

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California in a contract and copyright infringement case granted an administrative request to withdraw a summary judgment motion containing artificial intelligence-generated errors, but said that as a sanction, the refiled brief cannot contain new arguments or authorities.