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  • 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.

  • July 30, 2025

    Driver AI Surveillance Data Collection Class Suit Settled With Lytx For $4.25M

    EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A $4.25 million class settlement between a class of drivers and a technology company was granted final approval by a federal judge in Illinois ending a lawsuit that accused a transportation company and a machine vision and artificial technology company of collecting and holding truck drivers’ biometric data when scanning their faces via a camera that employs artificial intelligence to monitor drivers in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA); the transportation company previously paid a settlement of $56,800 for the benefit of 71 settlement class members.

  • July 30, 2025

    ‘Shadow Library’ Allegations Suffice In AI Copyright Action, Authors Say

    SAN FRANCISCO — Allegations of direct copyright infringement and artificial intelligence companies’ decision to hide the sources of their training data suffice at the motion to dismiss stage, authors in a pair of consolidated cases told a federal court in California.

  • July 30, 2025

    Google Says Removal Of AI Defamation Case Was Timely

    MINNEAPOLIS — Neither the citizenship of the members of a limited liability solar company nor how much compensation they allegedly sought was immediately clear from a complaint, Google LLC tells a federal court in Minnesota in defending removal of a suit claiming that its AI Answers program defamed the company by listing it as a target of consumer complaints and lawsuits.

  • July 29, 2025

    ‘Litany’ Of AI Errors Infects Expert’s Report, False Claims Act Defendants Say

    SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah federal judge will handle a motion seeking exclusion of an expert whose report in a False Claims Act case allegedly contains a “litany” of artificial intelligence-fabricated quotes and sources, according to a July 28 docket entry.

  • July 28, 2025

    AI Chatbots Replicate Tony Robbins’ Protected Works, Motivational Speaker Says

    LOS ANGELES — Two companies promote artificial intelligence chatbot replicas of Tony Robbins using his image, persona, methodologies and other protected material, the motivational speaker’s companies say in a complaint filed in a federal court in California alleging “digital, commercialized impersonation and misappropriation.”

  • July 24, 2025

    Federal Judge Withdraws Securities Class Opinion After Fake Cites, Quotes Found

    NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey federal judge in a July 23 text order withdrew his earlier opinion and order denying a motion to dismiss a securities class action after an attorney in the case notified him in a letter that the opinion contained a “series of errors,” including inaccurately describing case outcomes and attributing nonexistent quotes to the defendants and other decisions.

  • July 24, 2025

    Federal Circuit Won’t Rethink AI Patent Eligibility 1st Impression Decision

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The full Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 23 denied a machine learning patent holder’s petition for panel or en banc rehearing, leaving in place an April panel decision on a matter of first impression that affirmed the invalidation of the patents for describing the abstract concept of machine learning without pointing to specific improvements.

  • July 24, 2025

    3rd Circuit Wants Attorney To Answer For 8 AI Cites, Conduct

    PHILADELPHIA — An attorney must explain his lack of candor with the court and why he should not face monetary sanctions for filing briefing with the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals containing fake and inaccurate citations generated by artificial intelligence, a panel of the court said in an order to show cause after denying a petition challenging revocation of a physician assistant’s ability to dispense drugs.

  • July 24, 2025

    Lawyer Must Disgorge $6,925.62 Earned In Appeal For Fake AI Cites

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois appeals court ordered an attorney appointed to a parental rights appeal to disgorge $6,925.62 in compensation received for the case and pay an additional $1,000 penalty after he submitted briefing with fake and inaccurate citations and then insisted on their accuracy even after the court inquired about them.

  • July 24, 2025

    N.Y. Judge Orders Hearing On Financial Sanction After Pro Se Parties’ AI Misuse

    BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Pro se defendants must attend a hearing to determine whether financial sanctions are warranted after their noncompliant use of artificial intelligence resulted in a host of errors, including one motion the court described as “notably illogical.”

  • July 23, 2025

    AI Use In Dog Custody Case Earns Attorney Continuing Ed On Jury Instructions

    MIDDLESEX, Mass. — An attorney must attend training on drafting jury instructions and not bill her client after her use of artificial intelligence led to errors in briefing and a proposed jury instruction in a dispute between former romantic partners over possession of their dog, a Massachusetts judge said.

  • July 23, 2025

    Judge: Copyright Claims Not Among Those Surviving In Voice Actors’ AI Suit

    NEW YORK — Two voice actors may proceed with claims that a company breached its contract by using recording to train artificial intelligence and infringement claims stemming from the use of the actual voice in presentations, but copyright and Lanham Act claims and those stemming from AI output fall, a federal judge in New York said in partially granting a motion to dismiss.

  • July 22, 2025

    Judge Finds For OpenAI In Suit Over Open AI Trademark

    SAN FRANCISCO — While both companies in a trademark dispute over the “Open AI” mark offered artificial intelligence products, it was OpenAI Inc. that commercialized and advertised its products and whose mark acquired a secondary meaning, a federal judge in California said in granting the company summary judgment on July 21.

  • July 22, 2025

    Bankruptcy Judge Imposes $5,500 Sanction For Fake AI Cites

    CHICAGO — A federal bankruptcy judge in Illinois imposed a $5,500 sanction jointly and severally on an attorney and his firm for the use of artificial intelligence that led to a filing with fake citations, saying any attorney that is not aware of the dangers of using the technology at this point is “living in a cloud” and warning that future punishment will not be so light.

  • July 22, 2025

    Microsoft, GitHub Say Coders Lack Injury, Identicality In AI Appeal

    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.

  • July 21, 2025

    Judge Tosses AI Patent Inventorship Claims For Lack Of Jurisdiction

    CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge dismissed an artificial intelligence (AI) data scientist’s complaint against his former employer, an industrial supplier, seeking the invalidation of patents for which he claimed to be the inventor, noting that the scientist appeared to cite a nonexistent subsection of the Patent Act and sought relief that was not possible.

  • July 18, 2025

    Media Companies Appeal Whether AI MDL Required Revisiting DMCA Dismissal

    NEW YORK — Two media companies filed a notice that they will ask the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to review a ruling dismissing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim against OpenAI Inc. and others as well as whether creation of a multidistrict litigation governing artificial intelligence copyright suits warranted reconsideration of the opinion.

  • July 18, 2025

    Judge Certifies AI Class, Wants Response To Fair Use Appeal Motion

    SAN FRANCISCO — In a pair of developments, a California federal judge on July 17 granted a class certification motion in an artificial intelligence copyright suit involving pirated works, saying “It will be straightforward to prove the classwide wrong done” and the case is the exact type that benefits from representative litigation.  In an earlier ruling the judge asked for a response to Anthropic PBC’s motion for reconsideration or an interlocutory appeal of a ruling on the company’s fair use arguments.

  • July 17, 2025

    Judge Says AI Photo Analysis Patent Not Abstract Per Alice Test

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal judge rejected a defendant artificial intelligence company’s argument that the machine learning patents it is accused of infringing are invalid as abstract, agreeing with the insurance company patent holder that “the patents recite the patent-eligible arrangement of two independently trained classifiers to analyze property characteristics and conditions.”

  • July 17, 2025

    Immigration Lawyer Hit With $1,000 Sanction For Fake AI Quotes

    ALBANY, N.Y.  — A federal judge in New York imposed a $1,000 sanction on an attorney for including fake quotes generated by artificial intelligence in a brief in an immigration case, crediting the attorney for taking responsibility but ultimately faulting him for not responding sooner.

  • July 16, 2025

    Newly Amended MosaicML Copyright Claims Lack Specifics, Companies Say

    SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs in a recently amended action involving artificial intelligence copyright claims make conclusory allegations but never actually link the training of the models to copyrighted works or the plaintiffs’ own works, two companies responsible for training large language models tell a federal judge in California in seeking dismissal of the action.

  • July 15, 2025

    Judge: Fair Use Protects Anthropic’s Use Of Copyrighted Works

    SAN FRANCISCO — The use of authors’ copyrighted works for training the large language models behind Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence was transformative and is akin to schooling children and constitutes fair use, leaving only allegations that the company pirated copies for inclusion in a digital library, a federal judge in California said in largely granting summary judgment to Anthropic.

  • July 15, 2025

    Family: AI Output Speech Questions Interesting, But Not Appeal Worthy

    ORLANDO, Fla. — First Amendment questions surrounding artificial intelligence outputs may be “controversial, important, or potentially influential for courts” but do little to further negligence and wrongful death litigation tying a child’s suicide to use of specially created AI characters and do not rise to the level requiring interlocutory appeal, a family told a federal judge in Florida in opposing immediate appeal on a ruling covering the First Amendment and aiding and abetting claims.

  • July 15, 2025

    ‘Sheer Number’ Of AI-Faked Cites Noted In Defense Fee Declaration In Disability Case

    SANTA ANA, Calif. — In a July 14 defense fee declaration submitted at the direction of a California federal judge who imposed sanctions on a plaintiffs’ attorney for faked citations attributed to artificial intelligence, a disability insurer’s attorney said, “The sheer number of non-existent cases . . . was exponentially more than we have identified in any other cases discussing AI-generated and/or hallucinated cases.”