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February 21, 2025
Citing ‘Glacial Pace,’ Plaintiffs In AI Copyright Suit Seek To Compel Discovery

SAN FRANCISCO — While the company behind the Claude artificial intelligence promises to produce discovery before upcoming deadlines, its “glacial pace” over the last four months necessitates a court order compelling the production by certain deadlines to ensure that it doesn’t benefit from further delay, plaintiffs in a copyright suit tell a federal judge in California in a Jan. 20 letter brief.
February 21, 2025
Perplexity AI Says New York Court No Place For Copyright Suit

NEW YORK — A copyright lawsuit challenging an artificial intelligence-assisted search engine doesn’t belong in New York courts, Perplexity AI Inc. told a federal judge there while advocating for dismissal or transfer to a court in San Francisco.
February 21, 2025
Attorneys Respond After Admitting AI ‘Hallucinated’ Cites In Hoverboard Fire Case

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In a quartet of fillings attorneys expressed dismay and embarrassment after admitting artificial intelligence hallucinated citations in a recent motion seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony and explained to a federal judge in Wyoming the steps taken to help ensure the mistake is not repeated.
February 20, 2025
Judge Dismisses With Prejudice Pro Se Complaint Possibly Created With AI

LAS VEGAS — Mistaken quotations and case citations that a plaintiff claims are merely transcription errors more likely indicate that the plaintiff relied on artificial intelligence (AI) in crafting a complaint or simply fabricated cites, a federal judge in Nevada said in dismissing an action with prejudice.
February 18, 2025
Court Won’t Require Judge To Explain Ruling Excluding AI-Obtained Evidence

CLEVELAND — A trial judge does not need to explain why he suppressed evidence after a suspect successfully argued that it was obtained through a warrant that relied on artificial intelligence facial recognition software that a company itself admits is not reliable, an Ohio appeals court said in denying a motion seeking to direct the judge to issue findings of fact.
February 18, 2025
Parties To Musk’s Suit Over ChatGPT Funding Seek Dismissal

SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk and his compatriots have no contract with OpenAI entities on which to base claims, have not shown any competitive injury from the artificial intelligence company’s deal with Microsoft Corp. and neither properly allege nor sufficiently point to an injury in fact for their California unfair competition law (UCL) claims, defendants in Musk’s fraud and racketeering suit told a federal judge in California in three motions to dismiss.
February 14, 2025
Insurer’s Dismissal Motion Partially Denied In Suit Alleging It Illegally Employs AI

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal magistrate judge in Minnesota on Feb. 13 granted in part and denied in part an insurer’s motion to dismiss a class complaint alleging it illegally uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deny elderly insureds medically necessary care based on a model that the insurer knows “has a 90% error rate,” allowing breach of contract and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing claims to proceed.
February 13, 2025
Judge Upholds Limits On Depositions, Discovery In ChatGPT Copyright Case

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California denied a motion for relief from a pretrial order, turning away arguments that limits on depositions were improper in such a complex copyright infringement case and that OpenAI entities’ income was relevant evidence in the case.
February 12, 2025
Federal Circuit Says AI Researcher Again Fails To Show Government Took Research

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has again upheld the dismissal of a pro se complainant’s claims against the U.S. government, rejecting arguments that the government inappropriately used his research into artificial intelligence and that a judge in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims committed judicial misconduct in overseeing the case.
February 12, 2025
Thomson Reuters Largely Prevails On Summary Judgment In AI Copyright Case

WILMINGTON, Del. — Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH’s headnotes surpass the low bar for originality, and sufficient evidence exists that a competitor actually or substantially copied thousands of them to train its artificial intelligence with the intent to compete in the same market, a federal judge in Delaware said Feb. 11 in largely granting summary judgment.
February 11, 2025
AI ‘Hallucinated’ Fake Cites In Hoverboard Fire Motion, Plaintiffs Admit To Court

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Expressing embarrassment and saying they will reevaluate firm procedures, counsel for the plaintiffs told a federal judge in Wyoming on Feb. 10 that artificial intelligence did in fact author fake citations in a motion in limine seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony.
February 11, 2025
AI ‘Hallucinated’ Fake Cites In Hoverboard Fire Motion, Plaintiffs Admit To Court

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Expressing embarrassment and saying they will reevaluate firm procedures, counsel for the plaintiffs told a federal judge in Wyoming on Feb. 10 that artificial intelligence did in fact author fake citations in a motion in limine seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony.
February 11, 2025
AI Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs Seek Conditional Certification

SAN FRANCISCO — Job seekers who claim they were discriminated against by an artificial intelligence hiring tool asked a federal judge in California to approve conditional certification of the collective action, saying the move will help protect prospective class members and ensure efficient resolution of the case.
February 10, 2025
Student Says Yale Improperly Suspended Him For AI Use

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A student enrolled in Yale University’s School of Management says in a lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal court that the school failed him for a class and suspended him based on his use of artificial intelligence but did so through the use of AI-detection tools it knows are faulty and without ever actually concluding that AI was used.
February 07, 2025
Family Dismisses Suit Challenging Punishment In Student AI-Cheating Case

BOSTON — The parents of a student disciplined for using artificial intelligence in a project stipulated to dismissal with prejudice of the claims they filed in a federal court in Massachusetts against the school district and related individuals they accused of failing to inform students about how they could use the novel technology and imposing unduly harsh punishments.
February 07, 2025
Amici Tell En Banc Court Nonparticipants Can Challenge Procurement Process

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Entities can be an interested party and have the ability to challenge government procurement decisions even when the entity isn’t directly involved in the process, a private company and nonprofit told the en banc Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a case brought by an artificial intelligence image analyzing company.
February 05, 2025
Attorney Disclaims AI Use, Says Citation Error Is Simple Mix Up

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An attorney representing a woman in an age discrimination suit said he would never use artificial intelligence and that incorrect cites in briefing were the result of confusion arising from the handling of numerous cases and citations.
February 04, 2025
Sen. Hawley Introduces Measure Banning Chinese AI Tech

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Legislation introduced in the Senate by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., would ban Chinese artificial intelligence technology and subject the primary individual found to be importing or exporting Chinese AI to a fine of not more than $100 million and forfeiture of any federal monies while imposing a $1 million fine on any associate or other individual found to be doing so.
February 03, 2025
Judge: Microsoft Must Comply With Constitutional Notice Rule In AI Copyright Suit

NEW YORK — A federal court rule governing notice for constitutional questions applies to Microsoft Corp.’s “as applied” challenge to New York’s trademark dilution statute in an artificial intelligence case, a federal judge in the state said in ordering Microsoft to comply with the rule.
February 03, 2025
User Dismisses Class Suit Claiming LinkedIn Trained AI On Users’ Private Messages

SAN FRANCISCO — Less than two weeks after filing a putative class action in California federal court accusing LinkedIn of violating federal law and California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by accessing its premium users’ private messages to train artificial intelligence models without their consent, the plaintiff, a premium user of LinkedIn’s professional networking and social media site, filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice.
February 03, 2025
Hoverboard Fire Defendants: Motion In Limine’s Fake Cites Look Like ChatGPT’s Work

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — ChatGPT appears to have authored eight incorrect legal citations in plaintiffs’ motion in limine seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony, the defendants told a federal judge in Wyoming in opposition to the motion in a suit in which the plaintiffs say a hoverboard exploded and set fire to their home.
February 03, 2025
Suit Over Investments Gone Bad Dismissed As Sanction For AI-Created Fake Cites

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A pro se plaintiff’s inclusion of fake cites in a brief opposing dismissal of his suit against former investment partners leads to the “firm conviction” that he used artificial intelligence (AI) to craft that brief regardless of his other explanations for the mistake, a federal judge in Florida said in dismissing the action as a sanction.
January 31, 2025
Hotel Pricing Amici Warn Antitrust Law Must Keep Up With AI

PHILADELPHIA — Artificial intelligence will permit cartels to avoid antitrust laws by conspiring on prices without ever interacting unless courts focus on the impact the alleged conduct has on prices and not on a formulaic analysis based on human action, amici warned the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an appeal of the dismissal of a hotel price-setting case.
January 28, 2025
Judge Issues Show Cause Order After Potential AI Citation Issue In Employment Case

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After concluding that a plaintiff’s attorney may have used artificial intelligence (AI), a federal judge in the District of Columbia dismissed the employment case and ordered the attorney to explain how briefing included nonexistent citations, in a lawsuit that involves a woman who claims that mental health issues prevented her from properly prosecuting the case.