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December 09, 2025
Government, Procurement Company Urge Rejection Of AI Image Company Petition
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An appellate court merely confirmed existing precedent in finding that “interested parties” in the statutes governing the federal procurement process refers only to actual or prospective bidders, and the ruling does not require review by the U.S. Supreme Court, the government and a procurement company told the court on Dec. 8.
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December 09, 2025
Recap Of Some Major Rulings And Developments In AI-Copyright Cases In 2025
It has been more than five years since a news organization filed the first lawsuit challenging the training of artificial intelligence using copyrighted material. Since that time, there have been dozens of similar suits filed, the creation of multidistrict litigation, certification of a class action, several ground-breaking rulings and one potentially precedent-setting settlement. This story looks at some of the biggest developments in the litigation in 2025 and where those cases stand now.
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December 09, 2025
Attorney’s Remedies Are Sufficient To Avoid AI Misuse Sanctions, Judge Says
PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon declined to impose sanctions for misuse of artificial intelligence in a trademark case after an attorney took responsibility for hallucinated cites and the plaintiff and its attorneys waived associated attorney fees and said they would undertake efforts to educate about the proper uses of the technology in the legal profession.
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December 09, 2025
Calif. Court Imposes $5K Sanction For Fake Citations In Workplace Violence Case
LOS ANGELES — A California appellate court imposed a $5,000 sanction on an attorney who filed a brief that miscited case holdings and a case cite and largely published a previously unpublished opinion affirming that a firefighter’s complaints about workplace conditions and references to a recent shooting involving a colleague warranted a workplace violence restraining order.
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December 08, 2025
COMMENTARY: D&O Liability & Coverage: 2025 Trends, Developments & Decisions
By Scott M. Seaman and Pedro E. Hernandez
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December 05, 2025
COMMENTARY: Deepfakes In Litigation: Navigating Suspicion, Evidence And Forensic Analysis
By Phil Beckett
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December 08, 2025
High Court Rejects Bid To Consider Federal Circuit 1st Impression AI Patent Ruling
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 8 rejected a machine learning patent holder’s petition for a writ of certiorari in which the company contended that the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling on a matter of first impression that affirmed the invalidation of the patents for describing the abstract concept of machine learning without pointing to specific improvements was erroneous; the company told the high court that the Federal Circuit’s approach to patent eligibility “flouts this Court’s instruction to consider preemption.”
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December 08, 2025
Judge Issues Judgment Outlining Injunctions In Antitrust Suits Against Google
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In consolidated suits in which a District of Columbia federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the judge on Dec. 5 issued an opinion and final judgment outlining prohibitory injunctions, including requiring Google not to condition the licensing of Google Play on the distribution or license “of any Google GenAI [emerging generative artificial intelligence] Product on any device sold in the United States.”
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December 05, 2025
Judge Rebukes AI Use By Plaintiff In Counterfeiting Suit Against New Balance
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An “experienced” pro se litigant’s response to New Balance Athletics Inc.’s motion to dismiss his trademark infringement suit was riddled with factual errors, thanks to his use of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) program in drafting the response, an Arkansas federal judge held; the judge struck the response to the motion but also denied the motion itself.
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December 05, 2025
Oregon Appeals Court Sanctions Attorney Over Fake Cites, Quotes
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Court of Appeals sanctioned an attorney $2,000 for submitting a brief containing two fake citations and a fake quotation but said the respondent can refile a corrected version of the previously stricken brief with certain restrictions.
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December 05, 2025
Indictment Claims ChatGPT Encouraged Man’s Harassing Conduct Toward Women
PITTSBURGH — A man used ChatGPT as a therapist and best friend and cited its encouragement as he messaged women without their consent and frequented gyms to find a wife, where he harassed the women and employees of the businesses, the United States alleges in an indictment.
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December 05, 2025
9th Circuit Affirms TRO Enjoining OpenAI From Use Of ‘IO’ Mark
SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) that bars a company recently purchased by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI LLC from using marks that could potentially cause confusion with another technology company with a similarly pronounced name.
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December 04, 2025
Magistrate Judge Affirms OpenAI Must Produce 20 Million ChatGPT Chat Logs
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI Inc. defendants must produce 20 million ChatGPT outputs in a consolidated copyright action against it, a magistrate judge in New York affirmed in denying a motion for reconsideration after finding the evidence relevant and proportionate.
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December 04, 2025
Judge Certifies Alexa Voice ID Biometric Data Class Suit, Excludes Named Plaintiff
CHICAGO — A named plaintiff who signed up for Amazon.com Inc.’s Voice ID program after the filing of a suit would be subject to unique defenses that render him unfit to be a class representative, a federal judge in Illinois said while certifying claims that the company violated Illinois law by collecting certain biometric data through its Alexa artificial intelligence system.
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December 04, 2025
Bloomberg Must Face Book Copyright Owners’ Suit, Judge Says
NEW YORK — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and others successfully allege copyright ownership and that two Bloomberg companies used their protected works as training material for their artificial intelligence, a federal judge in New York said in denying a motion to dismiss.
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December 04, 2025
Magistrate Judge Orders OpenAI To Produce Dataset-Deletion Communications
NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. entities waived any attorney-client privilege protecting communications by offering shifting positions that resulted in the disclosure of some of the purportedly privileged reasons for the deletions and by putting their state of mind at issue, a federal magistrate judge in New York said in ordering production of the evidence.
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December 04, 2025
Google Accuses AI Copyright Plaintiffs Of ‘Litigation-By-Ambush’
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google LLC opposed a motion to certify a class action and asked a federal judge in California to strike the allegations with prejudice as a sanction for artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ “midnight switch” of proposed classes and subclasses.
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November 26, 2025
Supreme Court Seeks Response In ‘Paradise’ AI Art Copyright Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One day after distributing a case for conference, the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 26 asked for a response from the federal government in a case in which a man claims that lower courts erred by finding that his artificial intelligence-generated artwork was not entitled to copyright protections. The man previously asked the court to stay the case while courts decide whether Shira Perlmutter can continue to serve as head of the U.S. Copyright Office.
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November 26, 2025
DOJ Files Proposed Judgment In Antitrust Row With Rental Market Software Company
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a proposed final judgment in a North Carolina federal court in an antitrust suit against RealPage Inc., a commercial revenue management software company, alleging that RealPage used nonpublic information obtained from landlords and runs the information through its algorithmic software to align pricing, thereby impeding the free market process.
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November 25, 2025
Bankruptcy Judge Reprimands Gordon Rees Attorney For AI Misuse
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal bankruptcy judge publicly reprimanded a Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani attorney, revoked her pro hac vice status and ordered her to provide a copy of a ruling detailing artificial intelligence misuse “so egregious that it could only be construed as to have been committed in bad faith.”
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November 25, 2025
Judge Terminates Case Of Pro Se Plaintiffs She Says Submitted AI-Altered Evidence
OAKLAND, Calif. — A California judge upheld a sanction terminating pro se plaintiffs’ action for submitting what she found to be artificial intelligence-generated or otherwise altered videos and text messages as exhibits in a landlord-tenant case.
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November 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: Testing The Boundaries Of Product Liability For AI Products: How To Hold An Insurance Company Liable For AI Errors
By Jamie O’Neill and Abigail Damsky
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November 24, 2025
Parties Brief Court On AI Overview Murder Defamation Case Issues
CHICAGO — Should a case claiming that Google LLC’s AI Overview tool defamed a public individual by reporting that he was once convicted of a drug crime and was currently serving a life sentence for multiple murders proceed past a pending motion to dismiss, the trial would take approximately a week, parties tell a federal judge in Illinois in a joint status report.
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November 13, 2025
COMMENTARY: Summarising With AI, Reviewing With Care: The Use Of AI By Arbitrators – And What That Means For Advocates
By Fiona Cain, Jack Spence, Michael Mazzone and Harry Phillips
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November 20, 2025
Judge Relates Suits Alleging Salesforce Pirated AI Training Material
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted a joint stipulation relating two actions accusing Salesforce Inc. of pirating copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence.