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  • February 27, 2026

    Judge Says AI Conduct Led To ‘Most Egregious’ Rule Violations Ever Seen

    DAYTON, Ohio — Two lawyers’ use of artificial intelligence produced the “most egregious, inexplicable, and repeated violations of Rule 11(b)” he had ever seen, a federal judge in Ohio said in finding the lawyers in contempt of court, imposing $7,500 in sanctions and referring them for discipline.

  • February 27, 2026

    Judge Dismisses xAI’s Employee Poaching, Trade Secrets Claims Against OpenAI

    SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted OpenAI Inc.’s motion to dismiss an amended complaint in which xAI accused competitor OpenAI of violating the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and California’s unfair competition law (UCL), writing that xAI’s allegations relate to the conduct of eight former employees who left for OpenAI but not “any misconduct by OpenAI.”

  • February 26, 2026

    California Lawyer, Firm Face Sanctions For AI Errors In Scientology Assault Case

    LOS ANGELES — A California appellate court issued an order to show cause asking a lawyer and his firm to explain why they shouldn’t be sanctioned for including at least 10 erroneous citations in a brief defending an anti-SLAPP ruling involving the Church of Scientology’s response to assault allegations against church member and actor Daniel Masterson.

  • February 26, 2026

    Oklahoma Criminal Court Adopts New Rules Governing AI Use

    OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals enacted new procedures governing the use of artificial intelligence in the court and allowing for sanctions for its misuse.

  • February 25, 2026

    Federal Circuit Finds Another AI Patent Directed At Abstract Concepts

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a New York federal judge’s decision to grant summary judgment in favor of Amazon.com Inc. on claims brought by a technology company that accused Amazon of infringing its patent on a type of machine learning; the panel agreed in its Feb. 24 opinion that the plaintiff-appellant’s patent claims were ineligible as abstract.

  • February 25, 2026

    Image Hosting Service: No Photos Shared For AI, No Injury For Proposed Class

    DENVER — An online image hosting site pushed back on claims that it intended to license users’ photographs for use in training artificial intelligence, saying negotiations with unnamed third parties and speculative future conduct cannot form the basis of a class action.

  • February 25, 2026

    Judge Says Nvidia May Not Avoid Discovery While Court Considers Stay

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Nvidia Corp. must engage in written discovery stemming from an amended complaint expanding the universe of copyright material it allegedly used in the training of its artificial intelligence while the court considers both a motion to dismiss and a motion to stay discovery pending the resolution of the first motion.

  • February 25, 2026

    Illinois Court Wants Appellant’s Explanation On Possible AI Errors

    OTTAWA, Ill. — An Illinois court in an unpublished opinion dismissed an appeal over procedural errors and ordered the pro se plaintiff to show cause why she shouldn’t be sanctioned for filing court documents containing inaccurate citations and quotes.

  • February 23, 2026

    5th Circuit Sanctions Lawyer $2,500 After Finding AI Errors

    NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel sanctioned an attorney $2,500 after finding her responses to an order to show cause “evasive, misleading, and sanctionable” and concluding that her use of artificial intelligence led her to submit a reply brief containing 21 errors.

  • 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.