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  • February 20, 2026

    Investor: Oracle’s Misstatements About Data Center Development Caused Stock Drop

    WILMINGTON, Del. — An investor filed a putative class action against Oracle Corp. and several of its executives, alleging that they violated federal securities laws by misleading investors about the company’s contracts to develop data center capabilities and alleged resulting revenue growth.

  • February 20, 2026

    7th Circuit Awards Reduced Fees To Appellant’s Former Counsel In Malpractice Appeal

    CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals awarded $12,000 in appellate fees to an attorney whose former client filed two appeals after unsuccessfully accusing the attorney of malpractice and has already been ordered to pay a $750 sanction; the awarded fee amount was less than half of the amount requested by the attorney.

  • February 19, 2026

    Judge: Work Product Protections Apply To Pro Se Plaintiff’s AI Use

    DETROIT — A pro se plaintiff’s use of artificial intelligence in a case is subject to protections, and because AI is a tool and not a person, providing it information about the case did not waive work product protections, a federal magistrate judge in Michigan said in denying a motion to compel.

  • February 19, 2026

    Former NPR Host Accuses Google Of Stealing His Voice For Use In AI

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. stole National Public Radio host David Greene’s voice without authorization and used it as the default voice in NotebookLM, its artificial intelligence broadcasting product, the award-winning journalist claims in a California state court lawsuit alleging violation of the California unfair competition law, a pair of privacy laws and unjust enrichment.

  • February 18, 2026

    Securities Defendant’s AI Conversations Not Protected, Judge Says

    NEW YORK — A securities fraud defendant’s communications with Anthropic PBC’s Claude about his case are not protected by attorney-client privilege or the attorney work product doctrine, a federal judge in New York said Feb. 17.

  • February 17, 2026

    Judge Denies Pro Hac Vice Status After AI, Repeated Procedural Errors

    NEW YORK — An attorney’s filing of a court document containing an entire conversation between herself and ChatGPT and other procedural errors warrant taking the unusual step of denying her pro hac vice status, a federal judge in New York said.

  • February 12, 2026

    New York Court Censures Attorney For AI Misuse In Texas Federal Court

    NEW YORK — A New York appellate court censured an attorney as reciprocal discipline after a federal judge in Texas reprimanded the attorney for errors in briefing attributed to artificial intelligence.

  • February 12, 2026

    Judge Defaults Trademark Defendant For Counsel’s Repeated Citations To Fake Cases

    NEW YORK — In a dispute arising from the theft and resale of trademarked children’s toys, a New York federal judge issued case-terminating sanctions by issuing a default order against one of the defendant entities after its counsel was repeatedly chastised by the court for filing briefs riddled with false citations generated via artificial intelligence.

  • February 11, 2026

    Judge Declines Sanctions After Lawyer Swears Off Future AI Use

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A father-daughter legal team largely escaped sanctions for filing a brief with artificial intelligence-generated errors and then attempting to correct the brief without disclosing why, with a federal judge in Connecticut noting that the elder attorney swore not to use the technology going forward and both enrolled in continuing legal education.

  • February 11, 2026

    AI Artist Says Copyright Applies To More Than Just Humans

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Copyright Act has never been limited to just human authors, and the U.S. Copyright Office’s policy not to grant protections to artificial intelligence-created works goes against both the statute and the U.S. Constitution, a man says in reply in support of his U.S. Supreme Court petition for a writ of certiorari.

  • February 11, 2026

    8th Circuit Affirms Standing, Denial Of Relief In Political Deepfake Case

    MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota politician has standing to challenge a political deepfake law, but her 16-month delay in seeking preliminary injunctive relief warranted denying the request, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in affirming.

  • February 11, 2026

    Parties In AI Surgery Error Suit Should Cure Discovery Dispute, Judge Warns

    FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal judge in Texas asked the parties in a strict product liability and negligence suit, in which a woman claims she suffered grave injury from the use of artificial intelligence-guided surgery tools, to work at resolving a motion to compel discovery without court intervention and warned of the potential dangers of failing to do so.

  • February 10, 2026

    Judge Seeks Explanation For Dozens Of Fake Cites In Tainted Supplement Case

    TACOMA, Wash. — A federal judge in Washington said in a Feb. 9 minute entry that she would consider a motion filed by a plaintiff as seeking reconsideration of a ruling granting summary judgment and excluding experts.  The judge previously issued an order to show cause why the plaintiff’s counsel should not be sanctioned for submitting court documents containing dozens of fake citations and references to experts and studies.

  • February 06, 2026

    AI Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs Push Back On Dismissal Attempt

    SAN FRANCISCO — The filing of an amended complaint did not revive arguments deemed waived in an artificial intelligence discrimination case, and nothing in any statute or case law precludes a disparate impact action and a punitive damages claim, plaintiffs tell a federal judge in California in opposing dismissal.

  • February 06, 2026

    N.Y. Judge Says AI Train Has Arrived For Lawyers, Imposes $10,000 In Sanctions

    RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Artificial intelligence isn’t a train hurtling toward the legal profession, it is one that has already arrived, and attorneys must educate themselves about it, a New York justice said in imposing $1,000 sanctions on each of two attorneys for submitting a brief with nonexistent cases and quotations while ordering the firm to pay $8,000 in fees and costs to the plaintiff firm associated with responding to the issue.

  • February 05, 2026

    Judge Ponders Sanctions After Plaintiffs Rely On 50 Cite, Quote Errors

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A pair of pro se plaintiffs must show cause why they should not face more than $20,000 in additional attorney fees after filing court documents with more than 50 instances of what appears to be artificial intelligence-generated errors, a federal judge said Feb. 4 while adopting a report and recommendation awarding $11,740 in fees.

  • February 05, 2026

    Judge Hits Lawyers With $12,000 In Sanctions For AI Errors

    KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal judge in Kansas imposed a total of $12,000 in fines on four attorneys in a patent case after finding that they breached their Rule 11 duties by signing court documents containing artificial intelligence-generated fake cites, quotes and statements of authority.

  • February 03, 2026

    Copyright Office Defendants Say AI-Prompted Art Not Subject To Protections

    DENVER — An artist could have chosen to copyright whatever portions of a work he created, but he is not entitled to protection for artificial intelligence outputs that are essentially random and result from repeatedly prompting the technology, defendants told a federal judge in Colorado.

  • February 02, 2026

    Ex-Google Employee Found Guilty For AI Trade Secret Theft

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal jury in California convicted a former Google LLC employee of theft of trade secrets and economic espionage across 14 total categories related to his work developing software to ensure that graphics processing units could function efficiently with artificial intelligence.

  • January 30, 2026

    Insurance Firms Sue Ex-Executive, Engineers Over Reinsurance Trade Secrets

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A group of insurance technology companies filed a complaint in a Delaware state court accusing former executives and engineers of misappropriating trade secrets, breaching fiduciary duties and contracts and conspiring with a program manager to launch a reinsurance and captive insurance company using confidential regulatory, program structure and market strategy information obtained during their employment.

  • January 29, 2026

    Judge Tells Perplexity To Prove Jurisdiction Over Mark Cancellation Claim

    SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge ordered Perplexity AI Inc. to show whether the court has jurisdiction to hear its trademark cancellation counterclaim after the judge dismissed with prejudice the plaintiff data analytics company’s trademark infringement complaint in the wake of the plaintiff company’s repeated failures to heed warnings that it could not appear pro se.

  • January 29, 2026

    Investor Files Stock Drop Class Action Over Alleged AI Data Center Misstatements

    NEWARK, N.J. — An investor filed a putative class action against an artificial intelligence cloud computing company and certain of its executives, alleging that they violated federal securities laws by misleading investors about their ability to develop needed data centers, causing the company’s stock to drop and investors to lose money.

  • January 28, 2026

    Judge Dispels Man’s Claim That AI Generated Musk-Tesla Opinion

    SAN FRANCISCO — Simple scrivener’s errors and the court’s misreading of precedent, not the use of artificial intelligence, account for mistakes in a pair of rulings, a California judge said in denying reconsideration in a securities and defamation case involving Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc.

  • January 28, 2026

    Amazon, Perplexity Wage Battle Over Importance Of Agentic AI Shopping Bots

    SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Services LLC told a federal judge in California that its agentic artificial intelligence shopping bot differs from Perplexity AI Inc.’s bot and that attempts to suggest otherwise are distractions from the real issues and harm in the case.

  • January 27, 2026

    Lawyer Hit With $4,000 Sanction For AI’s Fake Cites

    PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Jan. 26 imposed a $4,000 sanction on an attorney for submitting a motion with eight fake citations created by one of the “most premier and frequently utilized legal research tools” and ordered the attorney and local counsel to submit the ruling to various interested parties.