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January 22, 2026
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Two unsuccessful job applicants filed a putative class action in California state court accusing an AI employee-screening company of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by evaluating the plaintiffs’ applications to companies that use the AI software at issue to score their applications based on “sensitive and often inaccurate information.”
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January 22, 2026
BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts on Jan. 21 referred the matter of attorney discipline to the Board of Bar Overseers after dismissing a case and finding the attorney’s responses as to how a filing came to include fake cites “somewhat less than forthcoming.”
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January 20, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York asked why a lawsuit alleging x.AI’s Grok artificial intelligence created and posted nude pictures of the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, including pictures from when she was a child, shouldn’t be transferred to Texas. The judge also denied the woman’s motion for preliminary injunctive relief and temporary restraining order but directed the company to show cause why it shouldn’t be granted.
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January 15, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs in what the court described as “an important case alleging use of biased artificial intelligence in hiring implicating potentially hundreds of millions of putative class members” must explain why discovery required for a certification motion appears incomplete, a federal judge in California held Jan. 14.
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January 15, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Supreme Court on Jan. 14 vacated a lower court’s ruling summarily denying sanctions and directed it to enter an order to show cause why sanctions should not be imposed on the district attorney of Nevada County for allegedly submitting briefing on a man’s bail tainted with artificial intelligence errors.
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January 15, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A business magazine and book publisher never adequately alleges that any third party directly infringed on its copyrights as a result of the Llama artificial intelligence or that the company knew that such conduct was occurring, Meta Platforms Inc. told a federal court in California in seeking dismissal of the action.
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January 14, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Services LLC in a Jan. 13 response says briefing established the harm caused by Perplexity AI Inc.’s illegal deployment of its artificial intelligence agent to the Amazon.com website and that the harm necessitates not continuing a hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction.
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January 14, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in the District of Columbia adopted a joint status report and set briefing deadlines for expedited consideration of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in a dispute over the use of legal data in the training of artificial intelligence.
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January 13, 2026
CHICAGO — Google LLC in a Jan. 12 reply brief tells a federal judge in Illinois that its AI Overviews could not have defamed a man because ordinary users would not believe that the product conveyed facts based on the disclaimers associated with the answers.
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January 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An en banc ruling reversing a panel conclusion about who constitutes an interested party in the government procurement setting will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an artificial intelligence computer vision company’s petition for certiorari and argument that it could challenge a government contract even though it wasn’t an active bidder in the process.
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January 13, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — A letter in which a company claimed in excess of $24 million in damages as a result of defamation by Google LLC’s AI Answers product put the company on notice that federal jurisdiction existed, a federal judge in Minnesota said in finding removal untimely and remanding the case.
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January 12, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk and other defendants pushed back on a journalist’s claims that a judge used artificial intelligence to craft an opinion granting an anti-SLAPP motion in a securities case, calling the idea a “hallucination conspiracy” and arguing that the mistakes were nothing more than scrivener’s errors. The plaintiff filed a reply saying the Musk defendants cannot avoid the reality of the errors and that their response compounded the problem.
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January 09, 2026
ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida dismissed a product liability and negligence suit after being informed of a settlement of a family’s claims that their child committed suicide after Character Technologies Inc.’s artificial intelligence chatbot encouraged him to do so.
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January 09, 2026
PHOENIX — A federal judge in Arizona granted final approval to a $39 million settlement in a suit brought by retirement funds alleging that an online home-selling company made false statements about its artificial intelligence-powered pricing algorithm that the retirement funds alleged resulted in the funds’ losses.
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January 07, 2026
MARSHALL, Texas — Parties to a product liability and negligence suit over the impact of minors’ use of Character Technologies Inc.’s chatbot asked a Texas federal court to stay the case, announcing in a joint Jan. 6 motion a settlement that they say will likely provide a global resolution to similar cases.
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January 06, 2026
HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal judge in Connecticut admonished a pro se plaintiff and struck two of his filings after finding briefing “inundated with AI-generated hallucinations” and that the man failed to properly acknowledge or correct his errors.
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January 06, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York affirmed two rulings by a magistrate judge requiring OpenAI entities to produce 20 million ChatGPT logs after finding that she didn’t ignore privacy concerns or potentially less burdensome production options.
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January 05, 2026
LAS VEGAS — A federal judge in Nevada struck a response filed in opposition to motions to dismiss and strike, granted those motions and awarded fees and costs as a sanction for artificial-intelligence-generated errors in a court filing.
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January 05, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT foreseeably reinforced a Connecticut man’s delusions that his 83-year-old mother orchestrated attempts on his life leading him to commit murder-suicide, the administrator of his estate claims in a suit alleging product liability, negligence and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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December 24, 2025
NORFOLK, Va. — Character Technologies Inc. marketed its artificial intelligence product as safe for minors, while its design decisions led the chatbot to engage in and encourage sexual conversations with an 11-year-old child, a family alleges in a negligence and strict liability lawsuit filed in Virginia federal court.
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December 24, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — Errors in citations and wording in an order granting anti-strategic lawsuits against public participation (anti-SLAPP) motions show that a court used artificial intelligence in crafting the improper ruling, a man suing Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. for securities fraud and defamation says in seeking reconsideration.
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December 23, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — Six authors deviated from the more traditional class action route and instead collectively sued the six major artificial intelligence companies alleging that they willfully and knowingly stole high quality copyrighted works from shadow libraries required to train AI products. The authors filed their complaint on Dec. 22 in California federal court.
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December 12, 2025
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December 19, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals declined to review a panel ruling holding that casinos’ independent decisions to employ the same algorithmic pricing tool for their hotel rooms did not constitute an antitrust violation even when it led to higher prices.
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December 18, 2025
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A medical marijuana company urged a Florida federal judge to ignore a sanctioned attorney’s attempt to downplay his conduct in the case, including citations to incorrect cases allegedly generated by artificial intelligence, but said the ultimate decision on the scope of the sanction lies with the court.