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May 13, 2025
Authors, Nvidia Agree To Consolidate AI Copyright Suits

SAN FRANCISCO — Authors in a pair of federal suits in California alleging improper use of copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence agreed in a May 12 joint stipulation to consolidate their actions against Nvidia Corp.
May 13, 2025
Insurer Says COVID Fallout, Not AI Scheme, Behind Securities’ Class Allegations

NEW YORK — CVS Health Corp. faced the same trends in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as other insurers, and it was those difficulties that impacted post-acute care prior authorization denials and the company’s economic performance, not an attempt to divest itself of an illicit artificial intelligence scheme in response to changes in the Medicare program, an insurer tells a federal judge in New York in seeking dismissal of a securities action.
May 13, 2025
Judge Admits AI Clone Video Of Homicide Victim As Witness Statement

PHOENIX — A judge in Arizona sentenced a man to more than 10 years in jail after he was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury that viewed a witness impact statement from an artificial intelligence-generated version of the victim in what is believed to be the first such use of the technology.
May 13, 2025
Federal Judge In Texas Warns Parties About Use Of AI, Rule 11

HOUSTON — A federal judge in Texas warned parties practicing in the court that appropriate sanctions will follow uses of artificial intelligence that violate Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11.
May 12, 2025
Musk: UCL Counterclaims By OpenAI Target Protected Speech

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI Inc. and related entities’ California unfair competition law (UCL) counterclaims target protected petitioning activity and speech, and the “circular” logic of the fraudulent prong claim does not meet the required pleading standard, Elon Musk says in seeking dismissal of the counterclaims in California federal court.
May 09, 2025
If Corporations Enjoy Copyright Protection, So Should AI, Man Says

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Corporations and artificial intelligences share similarities, such a lack of natural lifespans and families, yet copyright protections for the former “is simply not controversial” while a panel rejected such protections for the later, a man says in a petition for en banc review of a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appealsruling requiring a human author for copyright purposes.
May 07, 2025
Judge Won’t Enjoin Suspension In Yale Student AI Cheating Case

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A preliminary injunction reinstating a foreign Yale School of Management student who was suspended for using artificial intelligence on a final exam would not exonerate him, prevent disclosure of the suspension or resulting injury to his reputation or impact his visa status, a federal judge in Connecticut said in finding that the student had not shown injury sufficient for injunctive relief.
May 07, 2025
Federal Circuit: Alice Analysis Correct In Tax Patent Suit Dismissal

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A panel in the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 6 affirmed a Delaware federal judge’s decision to dismiss a tax company’s patent infringement suit, agreeing with the judge that the company’s patent describing a method to determine an aircraft’s taxability status is directed at an abstract concept without adding anything.
May 06, 2025
Contractor: AI Image Company Lacks Bidding Interest To Challenge Federal Contract

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The law narrowly defines an interested party in the federal procurement process as an entity involved in the contract bidding process, and that entity must have suffered an injury that a court could remedy, which excludes an artificial intelligence company that didn’t bid on a contract and dooms its suit challenging the award of an image-analysis contract, a federal contractor told the en banc U.S. Court for the Federal Circuit.
May 06, 2025
Court Issues $1,000 Sanction For AI Cites, Says Apologies Not Enough

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Submitting fake arguments and citations created by artificial intelligence does a disservice to the clients and constitutes bad faith, a federal magistrate judge in New York said, finding that “regret and apologies are not necessarily enough” and imposing a sanction of $1,000.
May 06, 2025
Nvidia Wants Pair Of NeMo Megatron AI Training Copyright Suits Consolidated

SAN FRANCISCO — Because plaintiffs in a pair of copyright suits involving the artificial intelligence training material already treat two cases similarly, consolidation would ensure ongoing conservation of judicial and party resources without any risk of delaying either action, Nvidia Corp. tells a federal judge in California in urging consolidating.
May 02, 2025
Attorneys Apologize After AI Creates ‘Misleading At Best’ Citations In Brief

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Two attorneys in an oil spill negligence case expressed embarrassment and acknowledged an employee’s use of artificial intelligence after a federal judge in Texas said the “number and types of errors involved here, along with Plaintiffs’ failure to address them when called out, implicate serious matters of ethics, competency, and abuse of judicial resources.”
May 02, 2025
Courts Confront Half A Dozen Instances Of Fake AI Cites

A federal magistrate judge in Texas denied a pro se plaintiff’s motion refuting the court’s characterization of a case citation as an artificial intelligence-generated hallucination and asking the court to apologize. It is one of several rulings in the last month involving pro se parties or contracted counsel where courts confronted the use of AI in a wide range of cases from around the country, including foreclosure, employment and deportation actions.
May 02, 2025
Texas House Passes Bill Criminalizing Altered Media On Political Advertising

AUSTIN, Texas — In a vote of 102-40, the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill introduced by Rep. Dade Phelan, a former speaker of the House, making it a criminal offense to distribute political advertising that includes images, video or audio recordings that have been digitally altered using artificial intelligence (AI) unless the advertising includes a disclosure that the images, audio or video recordings did not occur in reality.
April 29, 2025
Hotels’ AI Pricing Tools’ Use Violated Sherman Act, Appellants Tell 3rd Circuit

PHILADELPHIA — Casinos’ agreement to use an artificial intelligence price setting tool constitutes an antitrust conspiracy even if the users retained control of the actual price of hotel rooms and sometimes deviated from the algorithm’s recommended price, appellants tell the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an April 28 reply brief.
April 29, 2025
Bill Requiring Removal Of Online Deepfakes Passes Congress

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A measure designed to prevent the online publication of nonconsensual intimate images, both authentic and those generated by artificial intelligence, and creating a process for their removal, passed the U.S. House on a 409-2 vote on April 28 and now heads to President Donald J. Trump, who is expected to sign the legislation.
April 29, 2025
Judge Stays Case While Families Arbitrate Claims Involving Character Technologies

MARSHALL, Texas — A federal judge in Texas on April 28 stayed a case brought by two families after granting motions to arbitrate claims that Character Technologies Inc.’s artificial intelligence suggested that children murder parents and romantic rivals and pushed hypersexualized conduct.
April 28, 2025
Stay Of AI Rent Pricing Rule Eliminates Need For Restraining Order, Judge Says

BERKELEY, Calif. — The city of Berkeley’s stipulation staying enforcement of an ordinance making artificial intelligence-powered rental pricing tools illegal moots the need for a temporary restraining order sought by RealPage Inc., a federal judge in California said.
April 28, 2025
OpenAI Scrapes Websites In Violation Of Its Own Instructions, Publisher Says

WILMINGTON, Del. — OpenAI boasts about measures publishers can use to prevent the use of their online works in the training of artificial intelligence but then ignores those measures and scrapes copyrighted works from websites anyway, the online publishers of more than 45 media brands like Mashable, Lifehacker and IGN claim in an infringement complaint filed in Delaware federal court.
April 24, 2025
Judge: My Pillow Lawyers Must Defend AI Errors, Conduct In Election Denial Case

DENVER — Given “every opportunity” to explain how an opposition brief came to include 30 erroneous citations, an attorney finally admitted that he used artificial intelligence and failed to check for accuracy only after the court itself inquired about the possibility, a federal judge in Colorado said in an April 23 order to show cause about the need for sanctions and disciplinary actions in a defamation case stemming from Michael Lindell’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
April 24, 2025
Expert’s ChatGPT Usage Not Grounds To Exclude, Judge Says

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — An expert’s use of artificial intelligence ChatGPT to confirm his opinions in a product defect case does not warrant his exclusion nor does his lack of an engineering degree mean that he doesn’t qualify as an expert, a federal judge in New York said April 23 in denying a tool retailer’s motion.
April 23, 2025
Amici Brief Court On Constitutionality Of California AI-Speech Laws

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Amici in support of both challengers and defenders of two recent California measures seeking to govern artificial intelligence-created political deepfake content offered diverging views of the impact and constitutionality of the laws, with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in an April 22 filing arguing that the laws are no different than others governing false speech or attempts to impersonate politicians.
April 23, 2025
Judge Strikes Class Claims From Google AI Copyright Suit, Allows Amendment

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As originally defined, a proposed class in an artificial intelligence copyright action constituted an improper fail-safe class, a federal judge in California said while allowing an amendment that cures the defect and finding two Google LLC entities’ challenge to the new class definition premature.
April 22, 2025
Anthropic Says AI Copyright Action Too Unwieldy For Class Certification

SAN FRANCISCO — An artificial intelligence copyright class action spans a century, would include more than five million works owned by various people, trusts and other entities and would require the court to decide ownership millions of times over, a company tells a federal judge in California in an opposition to certification. In a separate letter brief, Anthropic PBC tells the court that the plaintiffs were misrepresenting a court’s order and the course and timing of discovery.
April 22, 2025
AI Challengers Ask Court To Reconsider Denying Leave To Amend

NEW YORK — The creation of multidistrict litigation governing copyright claims against OpenAI entities warrants reconsideration of a ruling denying leave to amend a complaint so that the consistency and finality goals at the heart of the consolidated litigation are assured, media outlets targeting the removal of copyright management information (CMI) from their works tell a federal judge in New York.