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September 16, 2026
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A federal judge in Vermont barred the state from continuing an investigation into what appears to be an artificial intelligence-created video of a man dumping a politician into a dumpster, saying the “ridiculous nature” of the video means it likely falls under an exception to a recently enacted law on synthetic media and the investigation would violate speech rights.
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September 15, 2026
CHICAGO — Google LLC must face a limited public figure’s claim that the company’s AI Overviews reported that he was serving a life sentence for the murder of three women, a federal judge in Illinois said Sept. 14 in partially denying a motion to dismiss, rejecting the artificial intelligence (AI) company’s arguments that the defamation case failed because the statements contained disclaimers, expressed uncertainty, cited sources and could not be taken as a statement of fact.
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September 15, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal magistrate judge declined to order nonparties Anthropic PBC and OpenAI OpCo LLC to produce information related to market substitution, licensing and torrenting practices, finding that differences in the artificial intelligence models and relevance issues defeat discovery efforts in a trio of copyright cases against Meta Platforms Inc.
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September 11, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — A geofence warrant case in which the U.S. Supreme Court remanded questions concerning particularity, probable cause and the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule continues to draw a lot of attention, with amici curiae filing six briefs supporting appellant Okello Chatrie in the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; one of the briefs comes from law professors who warn that allowing “broad geofence queries . . . will help clear the way for prosecutors to explore the dragnet possibilities of conducting reverse searches of chatbot data, as they have with keyword search data.”
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September 10, 2026
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Florida’s suit against OpenAI entities will be litigated in state court after a federal judge in Florida said the court lacks jurisdiction over state consumer protection law claims based on violation of a federal law and that complete preemption does not apply.
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September 09, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A lawyer must explain at an upcoming hearing how three court documents ended up containing erroneous quotations and references to the complaint despite her declaration under penalty of perjury that she either didn’t use artificial intelligence or used it in limited ways, a federal judge in California said.
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September 09, 2026
ALAMEDA, Calif. — A man facing murder charges filed a civil complaint in California state court accusing Flock Group Inc., which operates automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology and AI software, and two law enforcement officials of withholding relevant Flock data from the court where the prosecution is taking place, allegedly in violation of his due process rights and California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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September 08, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An appellate court in the District of Columbia struck a law firm’s appellee brief in a foreclosure case brought by a pro se plaintiff as a sanction for artificial-intelligence-generated errors, while a concurring judge warned that fake citations are just the “tip of a perilous iceberg” and said the court may want to consider allowing harsher penalties for such conduct.
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September 08, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A plaintiff in a newly filed lawsuit claims that because X.AI’s Grok artificial intelligence lacks adequate guardrails, users were able to use the product to turn existing child pornography of her into new material. The plaintiff asks that her suit be related to three other actions involving Grok-generated images.
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September 03, 2026
ATLANTA — An attorney submitted court documents with fake citations and misstated authorities, initially told the court he didn’t use artificial intelligence and then, in a “disingenuous” move, argued that he simply didn’t realize which cases the court was inquiring about, a federal judge in Georgia said in imposing an $8,000 sanction for the conduct.
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September 02, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. — An exhibit purported to be a translated text message between a man and another individual cannot be authenticated because the translator relied on artificial intelligence to assist and was himself the sender of the message, a federal magistrate judge in Florida said in rejecting the evidence after a bench trial on contract claims.
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September 02, 2026
LAS VEGAS — The United States knew that an expert used artificial intelligence to sharpen the grammar and sentence structure in his report for more than two months before attempting to extend a deadline to respond, a federal magistrate judge said Sept. 1 in declining to reopen discovery.
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September 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The terms of subscription plans clearly referred to additional per-session use of the Claude artificial intelligence and would not have misled a reasonable consumer, and the “impermissible leaps” required to conclude otherwise doom a man’s California unfair competition law claims as well, Anthropic PBC told a federal judge in California in urging dismissal of a lawsuit with prejudice.
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August 31, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. government’s designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk based on the company’s public comments about safe uses of its Claude artificial intelligence violates free speech and due process protections and constitutes an arbitrary and capricious agency action, a federal judge in California said in mostly granting the company’s motion for summary judgment and denying the government’s cross-motion.
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August 27, 2026
MADISON, Wis. — U.S. Supreme Court precedent allowing in-home possession of obscene material bars the government from attempting to convict a man of possession of artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse material, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said. In a concurrence, a judge of the court recognized that controlling precedent required the outcome but said that courts would be well served by additional U.S. Supreme Court guidance given technology’s advances since its last ruling.
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August 27, 2026
TACOMA, Wash. — After imposing $3,000 in sanctions on an attorney for artificial intelligence-generated errors, a federal judge in Washington excluded an expert after finding similar errors, granted summary judgment and dismissed with prejudice a case in which a nurse claims that the Army court-martialed her after she allegedly took tainted supplements.
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August 26, 2026
PHOENIX — A federal judge in Arizona formally reprimanded an attorney after finding artificial intelligence-generated errors in her opposition to a motion for $496,879.44 in attorney fees and three other filings, saying that even if unintentional, the mistakes showed negligence on the attorney’s part.
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August 26, 2026
MILFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut judge stripped a pro se plaintiff of the ability to electronically file documents in his case after finding artificial intelligence prompt injections in court filings, including at least one instance that was designed to influence how an AI reviewing the case would rule.
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August 26, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge partially dismissed claims brought against Otter.ai Inc. by individuals who argue that the company does not obtain prior consent of all participants in a virtual meeting before its Notetaker transcription function is engaged to record a conversation, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to sufficiently plead unauthorized computer access, and as to several plaintiffs, a reasonable expectation of privacy, but allowed claims predicated on real-time interception, third-party eavesdropping and collection of biometric voice data to proceed.
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August 26, 2026
SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge denied as moot OpenAI Global LLC’s motion to dismiss a class action complaint after a user of ChatGPT filed an amended complaint in which she alleges that OpenAI improperly disclosed ChatGPT users’ conversation information to third parties without obtaining user consent.
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August 25, 2026
FLINT, Mich. — A federal judge in Michigan vacated an order for an attorney to show cause why he should not be sanctioned under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)(2) & (c) for “apparently misrepresenting the holdings of various cases, possibly in reliance on AI-generated content,” finding that the attorney took the appropriate action to satisfy the show cause order in a coverage dispute arising from the death of a minor who was receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy at the insured’s facility.
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August 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Firms that represented publishers’ interests and authors involved in a $1.5 billion class action settlement between a large group of authors and Anthropic PBC in a copyright suit over texts used to train Anthropic’s artificial intelligence programs have filed two notices of appeal, challenging only a portion of the final judgment that relates to more than $100 million in attorney fees awarded to the class counsel.
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August 21, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — The United States filed a statement of interest in response to x.AI LLC’s lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s anti-nudification law, comparing and contrasting the state’s law with federal laws prohibiting the same type of computer-facilitated sexual harm. In a motion to dismiss the complaint, defendant Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says x.AI lacks third-party standing and that the law’s focus on child and revenge pornography is constitutional.
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August 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The en banc Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should review a panel ruling reversing an injunction barring an agentic agent from accessing password-protected areas of Amazon.com to ensure that a ruling applying the improper standard of review does not “occupy the field” in an area with little case law, the retailer tells the court in a petition for en banc review.
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August 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — It is the user of an artificial intelligence company’s shopping assistant who accesses Amazon.com and not the AI company or its shopping assistant, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in vacating an injunction preventing the company’s bots from accessing the retailer’s website while noting the limits of its holding.