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  • July 08, 2025

    Judge Imposes Sanctions For AI Cites In Lindell Election Case

    DENVER — A Colorado federal judge on July 7 imposed a pair of $3,000 sanctions against two defense attorneys after one of them submitted a “puzzlingly defiant” explanation for submission of a court document with 30 defective citations likely created by artificial intelligence.  Earlier a jury in the case awarded a man $444,500 on claims that My Pillow LLC founder Mike Lindell defamed him by accusing him of rigging the 2020 presidential election.

  • July 08, 2025

    Judge Won’t Consider Amicus Briefs In Deciding AI Speech Appeal Certification

    ORLANDO, Fla. — Amicus curiae briefs are unhelpful in determining whether to certify an immediate appeal on the question of whether artificial intelligence chatbot outputs are protected speech, a federal judge in Florida said in a docket-only order denying a quartet of motions for leave to file amicus briefs in a case alleging that use of Character.AI led to a child’s suicide.

  • July 03, 2025

    Georgia Court Imposes $2,500 Sanction After Fake Cites In Briefing

    MARRIETTA, Ga. — A “deeply troubled” Georgia Court of Appeals imposed a $2,500 frivolous motion penalty on an attorney in a divorce case after finding artificial intelligence possibly responsible for a fake cite constituting “a blatant misstatement of the law” on the availability of attorney fees in appeals on top of two fake cites in a court order and 12 fake cites in a response brief.

  • July 03, 2025

    California Federal Judge Sanctions Lawyer For AI-Faked Cites In Disability Case

    SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California federal judge imposed sanctions including a $500 payment on a plaintiff’s attorney who told the court that he “failed to scrutinize and oversee the preparation of” memoranda “filed with erroneous case citations that were invented by AI”; the breach of contract suit over termination of total disability benefits is headed toward a jury trial after the judge last month granted summary judgment for the insurer on a bad faith claim.

  • July 03, 2025

    Judge Finds For Meta On Fair Use, DMCA In AI Copyright Suit

    SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs in a copyright infringement suit over Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence could potentially prevail on the theory that the technology threatens to so dilute the market for their works that fair use doesn’t protect the conduct, but the “half-hearted argument” presented by the plaintiffs falls short, a federal judge in California said in granting Meta summary judgment on fair use and Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims.

  • July 03, 2025

    Google Removes Defamation Action Targeting AI Overview

    MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota federal judge in a recently removed defamation suit claiming that Google LLC’s artificial intelligence product falsely named a solar company as a defendant in a Minnesota attorney general action against several other companies in the solar industry will hold a pretrial conference on July 23.

  • June 20, 2025

    3rd Circuit Accepts Appeal In Legal Summary AI Copyright Suit

    PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted a petition for interlocutory appeal of a Delaware federal judge’s ruling that neither originality nor fair use protected a company from copyright claims stemming from its use of a competitor’s summaries of legal documents in the training of an artificial intelligence product designed to produce similar results.

  • June 20, 2025

    AI Robocalls Fall Under Telephone Protection Statute, Woman Says

    LAS VEGAS — A woman leading a class action and a company she claims initiated robocalls to her cell phone filed dueling briefs on motions to dismiss and to stay the case on issues involving whether she has sufficient injury for standing and whether artificial intelligence falls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).

  • June 19, 2025

    NAACP Files Intent To Sue Alleging CAA Violations At Memphis xAI Data Center

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issued a notice of intent to sue to xAI CEO Elon Musk and other corporate officials alleging that the construction and operation of xAI’s Colossus data center in Memphis, Tenn., violates the Clean Air Act (CAA) and other hazardous air pollutant requirements.

  • June 19, 2025

    Parties: FOIA Efforts Involving Defense Department, NSA AI Use Ongoing

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Parties in a pair of lawsuits seeking information on artificial intelligence use by the Department of Defense and National Security Agency filed joint status reports in separate courts saying Freedom of Information Act requests were actively being negotiated or production was already under way.

  • June 17, 2025

    Court Orders Continuing Ed, $2,500 Sanction For Texas Attorney’s Fake AI Cites

    DALLAS — A Texas appeals court panel ordered an attorney to attend eight hours of continuing education and pay $2,500 for an opposition party’s attorney fees after she submitted a brief containing four fake citations, saying that no matter how advanced artificial intelligence or other legal technology becomes it does not permit lowering ethical and professional standards.

  • June 13, 2025

    Judge Says New York Times’ AI Use, Licensing, Irrelevant To Copyright Suit

    NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. and other news entities’ use of artificial intelligence, stances on the technology and licensing deals are not relevant to their copyright claims against Microsoft Corp. and others over the alleged use of news articles used to train AI, a federal judge in New York said in turning away objections to a magistrate judge’s ruling on a motion to compel.

  • June 12, 2025

    Movie, TV Titans Claim Midjourney AI Is ‘Bootlegging Business Model’

    LOS ANGELES — Disney Enterprises Inc., Marvel Characters Inc. and other movie companies behind some of the most well-known movies and television shows of all time sued artificial intelligence company Midjourney Inc. on June 11, calling the company “the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism.”

  • June 11, 2025

    Arkansas Seeks To Amend Attorney Rules In Wake Of Artificial Intelligence

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court published proposed amendments to the rules of professional conduct governing the use of artificial intelligence by attorneys after recommendations were made by a pair of groups studying the new technology.

  • June 09, 2025

    Reddit: Anthropic Copied User Data For AI Training Without Permission

    SAN FRANCISCO — While billing itself as the ethical artificial intelligence company, Anthropic PBC trains its large language model on Reddit Inc. users’ data without consent and in violation of specific directives not to use the data, the social media company alleges in a complaint in California state court for breach of contract and violation of California’s unfair competition law.

  • June 06, 2025

    County, Lawyer Avoid Sanction In AI-Faked Cite Tax Case

    BUFFALO, Minn. — A lawyer for a Minnesota county avoided sanctions for submitting a motion for summary judgment that included five fake artificial intelligence-created cites, but the tax court said it would refer the matter to the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board for further review and deny the motion.

  • June 06, 2025

    Judge Strikes Pro Se Filings, Says AI-Faked Cites ‘Far Too Common’

    RICHMOND, Va. — In a situation becoming “far too common,” a defendant submitted five filings containing 42 fake cites likely generated by the artificial intelligence she previously admitted she uses to write briefs, a federal judge in Virginia said in striking the documents after noting that as a pro se party, the woman was likely immune from monetary sanctions.

  • June 04, 2025

    ‘No Code’ Company Builder.ai Files For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Microsoft Corp.-backed Builder.ai, which professed to use artificial intelligence to allow users to create apps without writing any code and was once valued at $1.5 billion, has filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

  • June 04, 2025

    Judge Tosses Cybersquatting Claim From Trademark Row Over ‘Perplexity’ Name

    SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge dismissed a cybersquatting claim against Perplexity AI Inc. in a trademark infringement dispute brought against it by a smaller data analytics company, finding that the plaintiff company failed to establish a required showing of bad faith use of the mark on the artificial intelligence company’s part.

  • June 04, 2025

    Law Firm Says AI-Faked Cites Was One-Off Event, Urges Minimal Sanctions

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A comprehensive search of 40 dockets and 2,400 legal citations spread out over 330 court filings found no additional instances of fabricated cites, the Butler Snow law firm told a federal judge in Alabama in a supplemental response to a show cause order suggesting that sanctions the court imposes be minimal.

  • June 03, 2025

    Minnesota Officials Defend Political Deepfake Law From Speech Challenge

    MINNEAPOLIS — A law creating civil and criminal penalties for political deepfakes applies only where a reasonable viewer would be deceived and does not apply to a man’s artificial intelligence-created parody videos, two elected officials tell the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in defending a judge’s decision not to enjoin the law.

  • June 03, 2025

    Court: Lawyer Must Cover Costs Of Responding To Petition With AI Fake Citations

    SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah appeals panel ordered an attorney to reimburse respondents for time spent responding to a petition that included fake artificial intelligence-created citations and donate $1,000 after the attorney told the panel during a hearing on an order to show cause that a law clerk used ChatGPT to draft the petition.

  • May 28, 2025

    COMMENTARY: AI-Driven Over-Naming In Asbestos Litigation: Legislative Protections Are Needed

    By Mary Margaret Gay and Sarah Beth Jones

  • June 02, 2025

    Nurse Testing Material Firm Opposes AI Copyright, Trademark Dismissal

    LOS ANGELES — A nursing test preparation company opposing summary judgment tells a federal judge in California that copyright covers its presentation of factual data and that the sale and use of its materials to train artificial intelligence constitutes infringement.

  • May 30, 2025

    AI Fake Cite Sanction Reduced To $6,000 From $15,000 By Judge

    INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana federal judge partially adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendation that the court impose sanctions against an attorney for submitting briefing with artificial intelligence-created fake citations, reducing the sanction to $6,000 from the recommended $15,000 while rejecting the attorney’s claim that the reputational damage he incurred as a result of using the fake cite mooted any need for further proceedings.