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  • April 29, 2025

    Hotels’ AI Pricing Tools’ Use Violated Sherman Act, Appellants Tell 3rd Circuit

    PHILADELPHIA — Casinos’ agreement to use an artificial intelligence price setting tool constitutes an antitrust conspiracy even if the users retained control of the actual price of hotel rooms and sometimes deviated from the algorithm’s recommended price, appellants tell the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an April 28 reply brief.

  • April 29, 2025

    Bill Requiring Removal Of Online Deepfakes Passes Congress

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A measure designed to prevent the online publication of nonconsensual intimate images, both authentic and those generated by artificial intelligence, and creating a process for their removal, passed the U.S. House on a 409-2 vote on April 28 and now heads to President Donald J. Trump, who is expected to sign the legislation.

  • April 29, 2025

    Judge Stays Case While Families Arbitrate Claims Involving Character Technologies

    MARSHALL, Texas — A federal judge in Texas on April 28 stayed a case brought by two families after granting motions to arbitrate claims that Character Technologies Inc.’s artificial intelligence suggested that children murder parents and romantic rivals and pushed hypersexualized conduct.

  • April 28, 2025

    Stay Of AI Rent Pricing Rule Eliminates Need For Restraining Order, Judge Says

    BERKELEY, Calif. — The city of Berkeley’s stipulation staying enforcement of an ordinance making artificial intelligence-powered rental pricing tools illegal moots the need for a temporary restraining order sought by RealPage Inc., a federal judge in California said.

  • April 28, 2025

    OpenAI Scrapes Websites In Violation Of Its Own Instructions, Publisher Says

    WILMINGTON, Del. — OpenAI boasts about measures publishers can use to prevent the use of their online works in the training of artificial intelligence but then ignores those measures and scrapes copyrighted works from websites anyway, the online publishers of more than 45 media brands like Mashable, Lifehacker and IGN claim in an infringement complaint filed in Delaware federal court.

  • April 24, 2025

    Judge: My Pillow Lawyers Must Defend AI Errors, Conduct In Election Denial Case

    DENVER — Given “every opportunity” to explain how an opposition brief came to include 30 erroneous citations, an attorney finally admitted that he used artificial intelligence and failed to check for accuracy only after the court itself inquired about the possibility, a federal judge in Colorado said in an April 23 order to show cause about the need for sanctions and disciplinary actions in a defamation case stemming from Michael Lindell’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

  • April 24, 2025

    Expert’s ChatGPT Usage Not Grounds To Exclude, Judge Says

    LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — An expert’s use of artificial intelligence ChatGPT to confirm his opinions in a product defect case does not warrant his exclusion nor does his lack of an engineering degree mean that he doesn’t qualify as an expert, a federal judge in New York said April 23 in denying a tool retailer’s motion.

  • April 23, 2025

    Amici Brief Court On Constitutionality Of California AI-Speech Laws

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Amici in support of both challengers and defenders of two recent California measures seeking to govern artificial intelligence-created political deepfake content offered diverging views of the impact and constitutionality of the laws, with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in an April 22 filing arguing that the laws are no different than others governing false speech or attempts to impersonate politicians.

  • April 23, 2025

    Judge Strikes Class Claims From Google AI Copyright Suit, Allows Amendment

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — As originally defined, a proposed class in an artificial intelligence copyright action constituted an improper fail-safe class, a federal judge in California said while allowing an amendment that cures the defect and finding two Google LLC entities’ challenge to the new class definition premature.

  • April 22, 2025

    Anthropic Says AI Copyright Action Too Unwieldy For Class Certification

    SAN FRANCISCO — An artificial intelligence copyright class action spans a century, would include more than five million works owned by various people, trusts and other entities and would require the court to decide ownership millions of times over, a company tells a federal judge in California in an opposition to certification.  In a separate letter brief, Anthropic PBC tells the court that the plaintiffs were misrepresenting a court’s order and the course and timing of discovery.

  • April 22, 2025

    AI Challengers Ask Court To Reconsider Denying Leave To Amend

    NEW YORK — The creation of multidistrict litigation governing copyright claims against OpenAI entities warrants reconsideration of a ruling denying leave to amend a complaint so that the consistency and finality goals at the heart of the consolidated litigation are assured, media outlets targeting the removal of copyright management information (CMI) from their works tell a federal judge in New York.

  • April 21, 2025

    Federal Circuit: Machine Learning Patent Invalid As Obvious Per Alice Inquiry

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 18 affirmed a Delaware federal judge’s decision to dismiss a machine learning patent holder’s suit against Fox Corp. and affiliated entities, agreeing with the judge that the patents describe an abstract idea without any additional creation on the patent holder’s part; the panel said the case presented a matter of first impression.

  • April 16, 2025

    Character.AI Founders, Families, Debate Jurisdiction In Chatbot Suit

    MARSHALL, Texas — The two founders of Character Technologies Inc. so dominated and controlled the company that they are its alter egos and, therefore, subject to jurisdiction in Texas just like the company itself, two families who claim that their children suffered mental health issues and harm after interacting with the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot say in opposing motions to dismiss.

  • April 15, 2025

    Federal Judge Sanctions Puerto Rico Soccer Plaintiffs For Inaccurate Cites

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Plaintiffs in a soccer antitrust suit compounded citation errors leading to an order to show cause by submitting even more erroneous filings, creating a “litany of inaccurate information” that makes the question of whether it all resulted from the use of artificial intelligence immaterial, a federal judge in Puerto Rico said in requiring that defendants’ attorney fees be paid as a sanction.

  • April 15, 2025

    Judge Won’t Reconsider TRO Denial In AI-Created Cite Error Discipline Case

    NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on April 14 declined to reconsider an order denying a temporary restraining order (TRO) for a South Korean woman who alleges that OpenAI Inc. never adequately disclosed that its artificial intelligence could produce fake legal citations and that a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel lacked authority to refer her attorney for discipline based on the inclusion of the AI errors in a brief in a medical malpractice case.

  • April 11, 2025

    Coders Push Back On DMCA Identicality Ruling In AI Case

    OAKLAND, Calif. — The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not impose a requirement that distributed works be identical to the protected work and even if it did, allegations that Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI entities removed copyright management information and used exact copies of the works to train artificial intelligence would meet the standard, two coders tell the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an opening brief.

  • April 11, 2025

    OpenAI Launches Unfair Competition Law Counterclaim Against Musk

    SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI Inc. hit Elon Musk with a California unfair competition law counterclaim in his suit over its corporate structure, saying the co-founder can’t stand seeing its success in the wake of his departure and launched an ongoing campaign of harassment to undermine the company.

  • April 11, 2025

    Judge Won’t Extend Time For Amended Complaint In AI Music Copyright Suit

    NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York denied a motion to extend the time for recording companies to file an amended complaint without leave of the court in their suit against an artificial intelligence company but said they can seek leave to file such a pleading whenever it is convenient.

  • April 09, 2025

    Judge Dismisses ‘Blade Runner’ IP Suit Against Tesla, Others With Leave To Amend

    LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California dismissed with leave to amend an independent film studio’s complaint against Tesla Inc., Elon Musk and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., after issuing a tentative holding that the company adequately suggested for the purpose of surviving a dismissal motion that Tesla and Musk may have infringed upon copyrights related to the 2017 film “Blade Runner 2049” while promoting Tesla’s planned “cybercab” product.

  • April 08, 2025

    Despite Past Sanctions, Fake AI Cites Continue Popping Up In Courts

    State and federal courts in a quartet of cases from around the country recently confronted the use of artificial intelligence by both pro se plaintiffs and plaintiffs represented by counsel in actions ranging from employment to deportation.

  • April 08, 2025

    Judge Allows Appeal, Stay In Legal Summary AI Copyright Fight

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Trial of copyright claims stemming from the use of legal summaries to train artificial intelligence will have to wait after a federal judge in Delaware granted interlocutory appeal of his summary judgment order allowing the claims and stayed the case pending that review.

  • April 07, 2025

    Woman: 2nd Circuit Lacked Power To Refer AI-Cite Error For Discipline

    NEW YORK — A South Korean woman alleges in an amended complaint filed in New York federal court that OpenAI Inc. never adequately disclosed that its artificial intelligence could produce fake legal citations and that a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel lacked authority to refer her attorney for discipline based on the inclusion of the AI errors in a brief in the medical malpractice case.  A judge denied the woman’s request to seal certain documents, saying she presented no basis for such relief.

  • April 07, 2025

    Virginia House Sustains Governor’s Veto Of AI Regulation Bill

    RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia House of Representatives sustained Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s veto of legislation regulating artificial intelligence.

  • April 07, 2025

    Lawyer Defends Actions Taken In Wake Of ChatGPT Cite Discovery

    CHICAGO — In an objection to a magistrate judge’s recommendation of a $5,000 sanction and disciplinary referral for filing a brief containing ChatGPT’s fabricated cites in a trade secrets case, a lawyer said that the error was an honest one resulting from an attempt to teach her daughter a lesson and that subsequent actions were an effort to correct the record, not evade responsibility.

  • April 07, 2025

    Judge Won’t Allow Reply While Considering Antitrust Case AI Fake Cite Sanction

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A federal judge in Puerto Rico denied leave to file a reply brief to a party responding to an order to show cause why it shouldn’t be sanctioned for submitting a brief containing fake legal cites possibly created by artificial intelligence ChatGPT in an antitrust case involving South American soccer.