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  • 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    NetChoice Opposes Sanctions Over AI Allegations In Withdrawn Expert Report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 — No sanctions are warranted for a motion targeting an expert report that has since been withdrawn and where a simple meet and confer would have eliminated the need for the filing at all, an internet trade association told a Louisiana federal judge.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.

  • August 27, 2025

    Copyright Suit Parties Debate Relevance Of Newspaper’s AI Use

    NEW YORK — The New York Times Co., Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI entities sparred over whether the newspaper’s use of an in-house ChatGPT tool could constitute evidence of fair use defense in a copyright case or whether such use is noninfringing and not relevant to the claims in the New York federal court case.

  • August 27, 2025

    Anthropic, Authors Reach Agreement On AI Copyright Claims

    SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic PBC and authors told a federal judge in California on Aug. 26 that they reached an agreement in principle resolving claims that the company pirated copyrighted works during the process of obtaining material to train its artificial intelligence.

  • August 26, 2025

    Musk Entities Sue Apple, OpenAI For Antitrust Violations

    FORT WORTH, Texas — Apple Inc. and OpenAI entities struck an exclusive arrangement to dominate the smartphone and artificial intelligence markets and took steps to suppress competitors from appearing in Apple’s app store, two Elon Musk entities say in an Aug. 25 complaint in Texas federal court alleging violations of antitrust law.

  • August 20, 2025

    COMMENTARY: A Survey Of State Laws Regulating Third-Party Litigation Funding

    By Mark A. Behrens and Christopher E. Appel

  • August 22, 2025

    Judge: News Outlet’s Copyright Suit Against AI Search Engine Proceeds

    NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York found sufficient contacts between Perplexity AI Inc. and the state for jurisdiction, even if California would qualify as an equally viable jurisdiction, and declined to dismiss infringement claims involving 10 works that Dow Jones copyrighted after the filing of the suit.

  • August 22, 2025

    Individual Defendants Push Jurisdiction Flaws In AI Product Liability Suit

    ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida denied an immediate appeal of a ruling allowing product liability and other claims against artificial intelligence chatbots to proceed, while two AI cofounders argue in motions to dismiss that they have no connection to the state and there is no reason to pierce the corporate veil to create one.

  • August 21, 2025

    Facing $70,000 In Fees, Lawyer Urges Education As Sanction For AI Citations

    PITTSBURGH — A lawyer told a federal judge in Pennsylvania that he immediately took responsibility for artificial intelligence-generated errors in briefing filed in a libel case and that imposing more than $70,000 in attorney fees as a sanction would be ruinous and punitive rather than corrective.

  • August 20, 2025

    Judge: Humana Must Face Some Claims In AI Benefits Processing Case

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Because plaintiffs’ claims largely focus on whether their contract with their health insurer permits the use of artificial intelligence in the claims review process and not actual benefits determinations under the Medicare Act, they are not preempted, a federal judge in Kentucky said in denying in part a motion to dismiss.

  • August 20, 2025

    Man Says Otter Notetaker Records, Saves Conversations Without Consent

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California man alleges that Otter.ai Inc. does not obtain prior consent of all participants in a virtual meeting before its Notetaker transcription app is engaged to record a conversation, leveling claims of computer fraud, invasion of privacy and unfair competition against the artificial intelligence (AI) technology firm in California federal court.

  • August 19, 2025

    Texas Opens Investigation Into Character.AI, Meta Over Chatbot Marketing

    AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas attorney general announced Aug. 18 that he is investigating Meta AI Studio and the company behind Character.AI for deceptively and misleadingly marketing their chatbots to children and other vulnerable individuals as mental health resources.

  • August 19, 2025

    Community Service Ordered For Pro Se Plaintiff’s Use Of AI, Fake Cites

    MIAMI — A federal magistrate judge in Florida ordered a pro se plaintiff to perform 10 hours of community service for submitting briefing containing 11 fake cites generated by artificial intelligence and said that in any future filings the plaintiff must certify whether he used AI and that he verified any AI-generated content.

  • August 18, 2025

    Expert Used AI, Submitted Fake Cites, Quotes, State Defendants Say

    BATON ROUGE, La. — An expert who submitted dozens of fake articles and quotations likely created by artificial intelligence can never be found to be competent or reliable and must be excluded by the court, state officials defending an age verification law tell a federal judge in Louisiana in an Aug. 15 motion.

  • August 18, 2025

    Class Responds To Anthropic, Amici’s Attempt At Immediate Appeal

    SAN FRANCISCO — A class of copyright holders told the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in opposition to artificial intelligence company Anthropic PBC’s petition for an immediate appeal of a class certification ruling that summary judgment in the case left only allegations that Anthropic PBC pirated and retained works en masse and that any claim that a verdict would be a death knell for the company is undercut by an agreement to cap the appellate bond at $5 billion.

  • August 15, 2025

    Getty Images Dismisses AI Copyright Suit With Intent To Refile In California

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Getty Images (US) Inc. on Aug. 14 notified a federal judge in Delaware that it was seeking voluntary dismissal of its artificial intelligence copyright suit without prejudice so that it may refile the action in a California federal court where Stability AI Ltd. argued the case properly belonged.

  • August 15, 2025

    Windows 10 User Says Microsoft Stopping Tech Support To Boost Its AI

    SAN DIEGO — A consumer filed a suit in California state court against Microsoft Corp. over its plans to cease offering technical support for its Windows 10 operating system (OS) in October 2025, claiming that it wants to drive users onto newer Microsoft products that use artificial intelligence so it can “monopolize the generative AI market” and failed to disclose that Windows 10 licenses were temporary in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).

  • August 14, 2025

    Musk Must Mount Fight Against UCL Counterclaims In OpenAI Suit, Judge Says

    SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk must face California unfair competition law (UCL) counterclaims stemming from his media interactions touting his attempts to buy OpenAI Inc. assets because the conduct is sufficiently divorced from courthouse advocacy to fall outside litigation privilege protections, a federal judge in California said, while also dismissing his breach of implied covenant and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims.