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June 30, 2026
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A New York appellate court on June 23 imposed an $8,000 sanction on an attorney for submitting a brief with fake citations and quotes that he eventually admitted were likely the result of the use of artificial intelligence and added a $2,500 sanction for his law firm in an appeal of a ruling granting summary judgment in a trip-and-fall case.
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June 30, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on June 29 asked the publishers of nearly 400 local and regional newspapers why their copyright suit against Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI entities should not be stayed pending resolution of active summary judgment motions in the OpenAI multidistrict litigation.
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June 30, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A pair of judges recently severed defendants in copyright cases involving artificial intelligence companies, finding that similar conduct by the defendants alone does not meet the standards for joinder under federal law.
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June 30, 2026
OXFORD, Miss. — The United States filed a motion “to intervene as of right as a plaintiff and to dismiss” a federal lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People against xAI Corp. and an energy infrastructure affiliate under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and state permitting laws over construction and operation of dozens of gas combustion turbines that power a Memphis, Tenn., data center, contending that the suit could threaten national security, as well as “artificial intelligence innovation, plus the energy needed to power it.”
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June 29, 2026
MINEOLA, N.Y. — A New York justice quashed a subpoena seeking prompts, outputs and other materials related to a pro se defendant’s interactions with OpenAI OpCo LLC’s artificial intelligence, finding the material protected by litigation privilege.
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June 26, 2026
NEW YORK — News plaintiffs on June 25 responded to OpenAI entities’ motion for judgment on the pleadings by asking a New York federal judge for leave to amend to their complaint to both voluntarily dismiss and amend contributory copyright claims in the wake of recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian litigation technology startup Legion LegalTech Corp. on June 23 asked a federal court in the District of Columbia to restore its access to Anthropic PBC’s newest large language model to prevent destruction of its business while it challenges the government’s directive suspending foreign access to the artificial intelligence model.
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June 24, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Californians face higher gas prices as a result of aggressive pricing that forgoes the usual competitive street-corner pricing model for a coordinated and automated artificial intelligence pricing system, plaintiffs in a proposed class action allege in a California unfair competition law (UCL) and Cartwright Act lawsuit filed in California federal court.
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June 11, 2026
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June 18, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — Four of five text strings between spouses who both worked at an artificial intelligence company mixed business and relationship content but focused mostly on the latter, while the fifth largely discussed work frustrations and must be produced, a vice chancellor in Delaware said in partially granting a motion to quash in a dispute between former business partners over the sale of Stability AI shares for $100.
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June 17, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic PBC misleads users paying for higher tiers of its Claude artificial intelligence service into believing they are receiving up to 20 times the use of lower tiers when in reality the higher tiers offer significantly lower-than-advertised access, a man claims in a putative class action alleging California unfair competition law and other claims.
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June 11, 2026
DES MOINES, Iowa — The “depth and breadth” of errors possibly generated by artificial intelligence in filings challenging a child-support order and the filer’s failure to adequately respond to the court’s inquiry leave the court with no choice but to dismiss the appeal, the Iowa Court of Appeals said June 10.
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June 11, 2026
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Florida police department arrested and prosecuted an individual based on an allegedly erroneous artificial intelligence identification of him as a suspect in an attempted child abduction despite evidence that clearly exonerated him, the man alleges in a June 10 complaint.
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June 10, 2026
ABERDEEN, Miss. — A federal judge disqualified all four attorneys working on a breach of contract lawsuit involving the City of Aberdeen from further participation in the case, revoked the pro hac vice status of two of them and barred the two from practicing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi for two years, and imposed a total of $8,000 in fines after finding artificial intelligence generated errors in filings by both sides.
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June 09, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two companies that operate the Grok artificial intelligence system asked a judge in a reply brief to compel a plaintiff who was granted permission to proceed under a pseudonym to use her real name, saying that doing so ensures federal rules are followed, furthers the public interest and does not implicate privacy concerns.
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June 09, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held June 8 that a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge was right to find that the court had no jurisdiction under the Tucker Act to consider a pro se computer scientist’s Fifth Amendment takings claim against the U.S. government because copyright claims against the government can be brought only under the statute the plaintiff used to pursue relief in a series of earlier suits.
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June 05, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Linguistic gymnastics” by an artificial intelligence-based legal research firm cannot transform its illegal copying and resulting distribution of case law data into contractually permissible internal use of the data, Fastcase Inc. and related parties told a federal judge in the District of Columbia in a motion for partial summary judgment.
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June 04, 2026
FORT WORTH, Texas — Because there is reason to believe that Elon Musk conducted X Corp. or x.AI LLC business through email at his other businesses, those accounts are subject to a motion to compel discovery in the antitrust suit against Apple Inc. and OpenAI entities, a federal judge in Texas said in overruling objections to a magistrate judge’s ruling.
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June 03, 2026
FORT WORTH, Texas — Two Elon Musk companies that have sued Apple Inc. and OpenAI for colluding to limit the market for artificial intelligence chatbots told a federal court in Texas that Musk is not a party to the suit and that there were no grounds to order him to produce emails associated with other companies he owns.
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June 02, 2026
As states, the U.S. government and courts grapple with what the rules should be for artificial intelligence, few areas are moving faster — or with more uncertainty — than AI governance. State legislatures are advancing their own varied approaches, the U.S. government continues to weigh federal action and businesses try to understand what it all means for them.
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June 02, 2026
SEBRING, Fla. — The state of Florida sued various OpenAI entities on June 1, opening its complaint with a screenshot from ChatGPT.com declaring that it was “built with safety in mind” but contending that the representation is not accurate.
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June 01, 2026
Over the last month, authors and other rights holders filed five federal lawsuits targeting artificial intelligence companies. In one of the most recent actions, Cable News Network Inc. (CNN) sued Perplexity AI Inc. claiming that the company’s bot unlawfully scrapes news stories and that its “answer engine” then outputs repackaged but nearly verbatim versions of original, copyrighted works.
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June 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Authors who opted out of a previous class action settlement that Anthropic PBC reached with authors over its use of their works to train its Claude large language model sued the company in a California federal court, alleging direct and contributory copyright violations and removal of copyright management information.
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June 01, 2026
ATLANTA — A divided Georgia Supreme Court imposed a six-month ban on an assistant district attorney’s ability to practice before it and admonished the Clayton County district attorney after artificial intelligence-generated fake citations in a brief opposing a new trial motion in a murder case also ended up in an order and the error repeated in briefing on appeal.
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May 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Companies that operate an artificial intelligence (AI) image and video generating service must face a suit alleging copyright infringement brought jointly by Disney Enterprises Inc., Universal City Studios Productions LLP and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. after a California federal judge rejected arguments that the film entities failed to state a claim.