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  • September 16, 2025

    Character Technologies Defendants Belong In Florida Court, Family Says

    ORLANDO, Fla. — Character Technologies Inc.’s cofounders knew the danger artificial intelligence chatbots posed, dominated management of the company and actively participated in the misconduct that led to a child’s suicide, a mother tells a federal judge in arguing that the court has jurisdiction.  In a Sept. 15 docket entry the court granted the defendants leave to file reply briefs.

  • September 16, 2025

    Pennsylvania Supreme Court Announces Interim Rules For AI Use By Courts

    HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted an interim policy limiting the use of artificial intelligence by court personnel to approved tools and laying out the guidelines for such use.

  • September 15, 2025

    Lawyers Blame Lack Of Review For AI Citation Errors

    NEW YORK — Four attorneys have taken responsibility for misquoted language from two cites, telling a federal judge in New York that while they initially ensured the accuracy of the cites, they did not properly double check behind artificial intelligence and that the conduct did not warrant imposing sanctions.

  • September 15, 2025

    AI Exam Company Must Face Copyright Claims, Judge Says

    LOS ANGELES — An education exam company’s allegations that it curates test prep materials and that a competitor reproduces that work and uses it for training its artificial intelligence are sufficient to trigger copyright law protections and survive a motion to dismiss, a federal judge in California said.

  • September 15, 2025

    California Attorney Must Pay $10K For AI Hallucinations In Employment Appeal

    LOS ANGELES — A California appellate panel on Sept. 12 said it is the first court in the state to address an attorney using AI and filing briefs containing “fake legal authority” and ordered the lawyer to pay $10,000 in sanctions for filing two briefs written with “AI tools” in an unsuccessful appeal of summary judgment granted in favor of a company and its owner on her claims for retaliation, termination and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).

  • September 15, 2025

    Valsartan Special Master Won’t Exclude Expert Who Cited AI-Generated Sources

    CAMDEN, N.J. — The special master in the valsartan, losartan and irbesartan hypertension drugs multidistrict litigation pending in a New Jersey federal court denied a motion to exclude an expert retained by a bellwether plaintiff, finding that the expert’s citation to nonexistent sources due to his use of artificial intelligence did not warrant exclusion.

  • September 12, 2025

    Google AI Copyright Case Proceeds As Court Preps For AI Metadata Discovery Issue

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge on Sept. 11 dismissed with prejudice claims involving certain Google LLC artificial intelligence models and vicarious liability claims against parent company Alphabet Inc. but otherwise denied a motion to dismiss.  Earlier a magistrate judge said she would not take up artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ request to appoint a special master but would hold a hearing on a motion to compel after plaintiffs complained that discovery lacked metadata critical to identifying copyrighted material.  Google LLC filed its response to the motion on Sept. 10, saying it had “gone above and beyond” what was required of it.

  • September 12, 2025

    Federal Trade Commission Opens Investigation Into Chatbot Safety

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of lawsuits accusing artificial intelligence chatbots of improper conduct, including contributing to children’s deaths by suicide, the Federal Trade Commission announced Sept. 11 that it was launching an investigation into the measures seven artificial intelligence chatbot companies take to monitor how children and teens use the technology.

  • September 11, 2025

    Designers, Shein Settle Claims Retailer Used AI To Misappropriate Works

    LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California dismissed a case after eight independent designers reported having reached a binding settlement with Shein Distribution Corp. and related entities over claims that the retailer used an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify popular styles and then misappropriated copyrighted works.

  • September 11, 2025

    No Special Master, But Judge Will Hear AI Metadata Discovery Issue

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge said she would not take up artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ request to appoint a special master but would hold a hearing on a motion to compel after plaintiffs complained that discovery lacked metadata critical to identifying copyrighted material.  Google LLC filed its response to the motion on Sept. 10, saying it had “gone above and beyond” what was required of it.

  • September 10, 2025

    Judge: OnlyFans Class Must Show Why AI Errors Don’t Require Sanctions

    LOS ANGELES — Plaintiffs in a California unfair competition law and advertising class action challenging the use of professional chatters on the OnlyFans site must show why they shouldn’t be sanctioned after their counsel submitted a quartet of briefs with artificial intelligence-created errors, a federal judge in California said in an order to show cause.

  • September 10, 2025

    Superman, Tweety Bird Owners Sue Midjourney Over AI’s Outputs

    LOS ANGELES — Midjourney Inc. knowingly trains its artificial intelligence on copyrighted works and allows users to generate unauthorized reproductions despite having the technological prowess to prevent it, the owners of characters such as Batman, Superman, Bugs Bunny and Tweety Bird allege in a lawsuit filed in California federal court.

  • September 10, 2025

    Judge Questions Completeness Of $1.5B Settlement Between Authors, Anthropic

    SAN FRANCISCO — The federal judge overseeing the artificial intelligence copyright class action against Anthropic PBC questioned the completeness of the $1.5 billion settlement, expressing concerns that important questions remained that could not be answered in the timeframe proposed by the parties.  The judge postponed preliminary approval of the agreement until the parties could submit clarifying information.

  • September 10, 2025

    Woman Opposes Sanctions After Allegations Lawyers’ Use Of AI Led To Errors

    PHOENIX — A woman in an employment suit opposing a motion for sanctions based on various errors in court filings told a federal judge in Arizona that the mistakes were clerical in nature and not the result of using artificial intelligence and that it is the defendant’s litigation tactics that required sanctions.

  • September 10, 2025

    Pro Se Plaintiff Must Explain Fake Citations In Default Judgement Case

    BEAUMONT, Texas — A woman who admitted to using artificial intelligence must explain why her objection to a magistrate judge’s report contains false statements about serving the defendant in the case and case law that appears to be made up, a federal judge in Texas said.

  • September 08, 2025

    Authors, Anthropic Reach $1.5 Billion Settlement Of AI Copyright Class Action

    SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic PBC has agreed to pay no less than $1.5 billion to resolve claims it improperly pirated nearly half a million books while obtaining data for use in training its Claude artificial intelligence, a class of authors says in a Sept. 5 motion for preliminary settlement approval.

  • September 03, 2025

    Divided En Banc Court Bars Nonbidder’s Challenge to Federal AI Contract

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The interested party provision in federal law allowing challenges to government contracts applies only to actual bidders and bars a prospective subcontractor from seeking to undo an artificial intelligence image and geospatial data contract, a divided en banc Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed.

  • September 03, 2025

    Judge Says Google Not Required To Divest Chrome In DOJ Antitrust Remedies Ruling

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a suit in which a District of Columbia federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the judge on Sept. 2 issued an opinion outlining remedies, including not requiring the divestiture of Google Chrome.  The judge accepted with modifications Google’s proposed remedies “in full” and adopted in part the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and states’ proposed remedies.

  • September 02, 2025

    NetChoice Opposes Sanctions Over AI Allegations In Withdrawn Expert Report

    BATON ROUGE, La. — No sanctions are warranted for a motion targeting an expert report that has since been withdrawn and where a simple meet and confer would have eliminated the need for the filing at all, an internet trade association told a Louisiana federal judge.

  • September 02, 2025

    Disqualifying Lawyers Over Expert’s AI Misuse Too Harsh, Plaintiff Says

    SALT LAKE CITY — Mistakes are inevitable in any long-running litigation, and since neither the plaintiff nor his attorneys are responsible for the artificial intelligence-generated errors in an expert’s report, disqualification would be an unnecessarily drastic remedy, attorneys told a federal judge in Utah in opposing a motion for sanctions.

  • August 22, 2025

    COMMENTARY: International Arbitration And The EU AI Act

    By Natasha Tardif and Alexandre Shamloo

  • August 29, 2025

    Point Of Robots.txt Focus In Publishers’ AI Copyright Suit

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Whether the robots.txt file instructions barring bot scraping of websites constitutes a binding technical measure or simply directions that can be ignored came before a federal judge in New York, as OpenAI Inc. entities and a publisher of 45 media brands brief a motion to dismiss.

  • August 29, 2025

    AI Hotel Pricing Appellants Seek Rehearing After Court Finds No Antitrust Violation

    SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs in a proposed class action asked the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for additional time to seek rehearing of a ruling affirming dismissal of antitrust claims on the grounds that Las Vegas hotels’ adoption of algorithmic pricing software constituted parallel conduct and not an antitrust law violation.

  • August 28, 2025

    Parents Claim Intentional ChatGPT Design Choices Led To Son’s Suicide

    SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities intentionally designed ChatGPT to emotionally engage with users but without implementing sufficient safeguards, leading the AI to encourage a teenager to isolate from his family and commit suicide, his parents say in a California lawsuit alleging strict liability, negligence, wrongful death and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).

  • August 28, 2025

    Filmmaker, Meta Dismiss Suit Claiming AI Falsely Parroted Jan. 6 Accusations

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A filmmaker who claimed that Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama artificial intelligence incorrectly identified him as a participant in the Jan. 6 riot and that the company’s slow and ineffectual responses did little to correct the problem agreed to dismissal of the suit with prejudice, according to documents filed in Delaware court.