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September 24, 2025
AI Copyright Authors: Revised Plan Should Relieve Concerns Over $1.5B Settlement

SAN FRANCISCO — Changes to the proposed $1.5 billion artificial intelligence copyright settlement between authors and Anthropic PBC address court concerns through “a state-of-the-art notice plan” and a streamlined claims process that both encourages submissions and adequately handles multi-claimant situations, plaintiffs told a federal judge in California in a supplemental brief.
September 23, 2025
Court Imposes $4,000 Sanction For ‘Pervasive’ Errors In Legal Filings

GREEN BAY, Wis. — A federal magistrate judge in Wisconsin imposed a $4,000 sanction on an attorney for “pervasive” artificial intelligence-generated factual and legal misrepresentations in two filings and sanctioned a second attorney $500 for signing off on amended filings that still contained errors.
September 23, 2025
Magistrate Judge Won’t Order Production Of NYT’s AI Chat Usage

NEW YORK — A federal magistrate judge in New York denied a motion to compel by OpenAI entities and Microsoft seeking user logs from The New York Times’ internal ChatGPT-based tool, ruling that the logs are irrelevant to the fair use defense and would cost nearly $1 million and three months to review and produce.
September 18, 2025
Illinois Court Strikes Brief, Awards Fees And Costs After AI Cite Errors

ELGIN, Ill. — An Illinois appellate court overseeing a landlord-tenant dispute struck the tenants’ reply brief and said it would award attorney fees and costs related to responding to the brief after concluding the filing included citations to four cases that were hallucinated by artificial intelligence.
September 17, 2025
California Bill Seeks To Curb Harm To Minors From AI Chatbots

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the number of lawsuits alleging that minors were harmed by the use of artificial intelligence chatbots continues to grow, the California State Legislature passed a measure designed to ensure AI companions will not promote self-harm.
September 16, 2025
Character Technologies Defendants Belong In Florida Court, Family Says

ORLANDO, Fla. — Character Technologies Inc.’s cofounders knew the danger artificial intelligence chatbots posed, dominated management of the company and actively participated in the misconduct that led to a child’s suicide, a mother tells a federal judge in arguing that the court has jurisdiction. In a Sept. 15 docket entry the court granted the defendants leave to file reply briefs.
September 16, 2025
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Announces Interim Rules For AI Use By Courts

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted an interim policy limiting the use of artificial intelligence by court personnel to approved tools and laying out the guidelines for such use.
September 15, 2025
Lawyers Blame Lack Of Review For AI Citation Errors

NEW YORK — Four attorneys have taken responsibility for misquoted language from two cites, telling a federal judge in New York that while they initially ensured the accuracy of the cites, they did not properly double check behind artificial intelligence and that the conduct did not warrant imposing sanctions.
September 15, 2025
AI Exam Company Must Face Copyright Claims, Judge Says

LOS ANGELES — An education exam company’s allegations that it curates test prep materials and that a competitor reproduces that work and uses it for training its artificial intelligence are sufficient to trigger copyright law protections and survive a motion to dismiss, a federal judge in California said.
September 15, 2025
California Attorney Must Pay $10K For AI Hallucinations In Employment Appeal

LOS ANGELES — A California appellate panel on Sept. 12 said it is the first court in the state to address an attorney using AI and filing briefs containing “fake legal authority” and ordered the lawyer to pay $10,000 in sanctions for filing two briefs written with “AI tools” in an unsuccessful appeal of summary judgment granted in favor of a company and its owner on her claims for retaliation, termination and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
September 15, 2025
Valsartan Special Master Won’t Exclude Expert Who Cited AI-Generated Sources

CAMDEN, N.J. — The special master in the valsartan, losartan and irbesartan hypertension drugs multidistrict litigation pending in a New Jersey federal court denied a motion to exclude an expert retained by a bellwether plaintiff, finding that the expert’s citation to nonexistent sources due to his use of artificial intelligence did not warrant exclusion.
September 12, 2025
Google AI Copyright Case Proceeds As Court Preps For AI Metadata Discovery Issue

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge on Sept. 11 dismissed with prejudice claims involving certain Google LLC artificial intelligence models and vicarious liability claims against parent company Alphabet Inc. but otherwise denied a motion to dismiss. Earlier a magistrate judge said she would not take up artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ request to appoint a special master but would hold a hearing on a motion to compel after plaintiffs complained that discovery lacked metadata critical to identifying copyrighted material. Google LLC filed its response to the motion on Sept. 10, saying it had “gone above and beyond” what was required of it.
September 12, 2025
Federal Trade Commission Opens Investigation Into Chatbot Safety

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of lawsuits accusing artificial intelligence chatbots of improper conduct, including contributing to children’s deaths by suicide, the Federal Trade Commission announced Sept. 11 that it was launching an investigation into the measures seven artificial intelligence chatbot companies take to monitor how children and teens use the technology.
September 11, 2025
Designers, Shein Settle Claims Retailer Used AI To Misappropriate Works

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California dismissed a case after eight independent designers reported having reached a binding settlement with Shein Distribution Corp. and related entities over claims that the retailer used an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify popular styles and then misappropriated copyrighted works.
September 11, 2025
No Special Master, But Judge Will Hear AI Metadata Discovery Issue

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge said she would not take up artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ request to appoint a special master but would hold a hearing on a motion to compel after plaintiffs complained that discovery lacked metadata critical to identifying copyrighted material. Google LLC filed its response to the motion on Sept. 10, saying it had “gone above and beyond” what was required of it.
September 10, 2025
Judge: OnlyFans Class Must Show Why AI Errors Don’t Require Sanctions

LOS ANGELES — Plaintiffs in a California unfair competition law and advertising class action challenging the use of professional chatters on the OnlyFans site must show why they shouldn’t be sanctioned after their counsel submitted a quartet of briefs with artificial intelligence-created errors, a federal judge in California said in an order to show cause.
September 10, 2025
Superman, Tweety Bird Owners Sue Midjourney Over AI’s Outputs

LOS ANGELES — Midjourney Inc. knowingly trains its artificial intelligence on copyrighted works and allows users to generate unauthorized reproductions despite having the technological prowess to prevent it, the owners of characters such as Batman, Superman, Bugs Bunny and Tweety Bird allege in a lawsuit filed in California federal court.
September 10, 2025
Judge Questions Completeness Of $1.5B Settlement Between Authors, Anthropic

SAN FRANCISCO — The federal judge overseeing the artificial intelligence copyright class action against Anthropic PBC questioned the completeness of the $1.5 billion settlement, expressing concerns that important questions remained that could not be answered in the timeframe proposed by the parties. The judge postponed preliminary approval of the agreement until the parties could submit clarifying information.
September 10, 2025
Woman Opposes Sanctions After Allegations Lawyers’ Use Of AI Led To Errors

PHOENIX — A woman in an employment suit opposing a motion for sanctions based on various errors in court filings told a federal judge in Arizona that the mistakes were clerical in nature and not the result of using artificial intelligence and that it is the defendant’s litigation tactics that required sanctions.
September 10, 2025
Pro Se Plaintiff Must Explain Fake Citations In Default Judgment Case

BEAUMONT, Texas — A woman who admitted to using artificial intelligence must explain why her objection to a magistrate judge’s report contains false statements about serving the defendant in the case and case law that appears to be made up, a federal judge in Texas said.
September 08, 2025
Authors, Anthropic Reach $1.5 Billion Settlement Of AI Copyright Class Action

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic PBC has agreed to pay no less than $1.5 billion to resolve claims it improperly pirated nearly half a million books while obtaining data for use in training its Claude artificial intelligence, a class of authors says in a Sept. 5 motion for preliminary settlement approval.
September 03, 2025
Divided En Banc Court Bars Nonbidder’s Challenge To Federal AI Contract

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The interested party provision in federal law allowing challenges to government contracts applies only to actual bidders and bars a prospective subcontractor from seeking to undo an artificial intelligence image and geospatial data contract, a divided en banc Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed.
September 03, 2025
Judge Says Google Not Required To Divest Chrome In DOJ Antitrust Remedies Ruling

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a suit in which a District of Columbia federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the judge on Sept. 2 issued an opinion outlining remedies, including not requiring the divestiture of Google Chrome. The judge accepted with modifications Google’s proposed remedies “in full” and adopted in part the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and states’ proposed remedies.
September 02, 2025
NetChoice Opposes Sanctions Over AI Allegations In Withdrawn Expert Report

BATON ROUGE, La. — No sanctions are warranted for a motion targeting an expert report that has since been withdrawn and where a simple meet and confer would have eliminated the need for the filing at all, an internet trade association told a Louisiana federal judge.
September 02, 2025
Disqualifying Lawyers Over Expert’s AI Misuse Too Harsh, Plaintiff Says

SALT LAKE CITY — Mistakes are inevitable in any long-running litigation, and since neither the plaintiff nor his attorneys are responsible for the artificial intelligence-generated errors in an expert’s report, disqualification would be an unnecessarily drastic remedy, attorneys told a federal judge in Utah in opposing a motion for sanctions.