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July 23, 2026
LOS ANGELES — After Cox Commc'ns, Inc. v. Sony Music Ent., movie and television production companies’ contributory copyright infringement claim is doomed because there is no evidence that Midjourney Inc. displayed copyrighted material or encouraged users to produce it, the artificial intelligence image company says in a motion for partial judgment on the pleadings. Meanwhile, the parties wrapped briefing on Midjourney’s attempt to have a judge take a second look at a ruling limiting discovery into the plaintiffs’ consumer-facing AI uses.
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July 23, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — Following a ruling that left only counterclaims pending in a breach of contract and bad faith suit over residual disability benefits for a neurosurgeon, the parties notified a California federal court that they “are in the process of memorializing” an undisclosed settlement.
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July 23, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ruling that users of three Google LLC services failed to show an injury arising from an allegation that the company activated its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) bot without their knowledge or consent, a California federal judge dismissed their amended class action complaint with leave to amend.
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July 22, 2026
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A federal judge in Michigan on July 21 struck four filings by pro se litigants associated with objections to a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation, after the judge concluded that they contained “factitious citations” that sometimes stood for the exact opposite of the stated position despite repeated warnings and even prior sanctions.
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July 22, 2026
CHICAGO — An insurer’s complaints about a pro se litigant’s conduct should be brought against that litigant and not the tool she used in pursuing her actions, and the insurer’s claims against OpenAI entities as the maker of ChatGPT are barred by Illinois law and litigation privilege, the company told a federal judge in Illinois.
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July 21, 2026
CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated and remanded a settlement of claims brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) against the creator and curator of a massive digital photo database after agreeing with two objectors that the nationwide class members lacked a separate representative and counsel to protect their interests when settlement funds were allocated in greater shares to four state subclasses.
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July 20, 2026
NEW YORK — Court officials’ actions related to the referral of an attorney for disciplinary action after she filed a brief with artificial intelligence-generated errors fall within official acts protected by judicial immunity, a judge said while dismissing an action and declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state law product liability claims against OpenAI Inc.
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July 20, 2026
PHOENIX — An Arizona court struck a brief and ordered the pro se appellant in a dispute over a mother’s estate to pay his sibling’s attorney fees after finding that the opening brief contained six inaccurate citations.
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July 20, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge on July 17 granted a motion for preliminary approval of a $250 million settlement, including an estimated $70 million in attorney fees, to resolve class claims that Apple Inc. violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by misrepresenting the artificial intelligence capabilities that new iPhone models with “Apple Intelligence” and Siri software would provide and overruled an argument by objectors who argued that some class members are entitled to more damages.
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July 17, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California granted an artificial intelligence study materials company summary judgment on direct and vicarious copyright, trade dress and trademark and other claims, finding that it was merely a passive entity with respect to its users’ uploading of copyrighted materials.
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July 16, 2026
NEW YORK — For two years, OpenAI entities misled plaintiffs and the court about the ability to search training data and ChatGPT outputs for plaintiffs’ copyrighted material and destroyed other evidence, the reality of which came to light only during a court-ordered second deposition of the defendants’ corporate representative, news plaintiffs say in asking the federal judge in New York overseeing multidistrict copyright litigation to impose sanctions.
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July 15, 2026
ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a suit filed by employees of an airline and airline staffing company alleging in part that their employers’ protocols related to the COVID-19 pandemic created a hostile work environment, finding that the lower court correctly determined that the employees failed to state a claim against Atlas Air Inc. and that the lower court lacked personal jurisdiction over Flight Services International LLC.
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July 14, 2026
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The state of Florida in a motion to remand says that arguments that a state law negligence suit over what it claims was a flawed rollout of ChatGPT belongs in federal court are “frivolous” and “preposterous” and simply an attempt to delay the litigation by the OpenAI entities.
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July 08, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York denied a motion to stay the transfer to a federal court in Texas of a suit alleging that x.AI Holding Corp.’s Grok artificial intelligence allowed users to create and post nude pictures of the plaintiff online, holding that the woman had failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits of her petition for a writ of mandamus pending before the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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July 08, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 7 affirmed a California federal judge’s holding that a dental technology plaintiff-appellant company’s patents describing the use of machine learning technology in a dental imaging tool were directed at patent-ineligible abstract concepts.
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July 07, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Permitting an interlocutory appeal on the viability of the disparate impact claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in a case over artificial intelligence-based hiring discrimination where the ADEA collective was already provisionally certified, discovery is ongoing and an amended complaint has been filed would not “materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation,” a federal judge in California ruled, denying the motion for certification of an interlocutory appeal filed by the defendant, a human resources management and applicant-screening services company.
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July 06, 2026
SEATTLE — In an effort to obtain training data for its artificial intelligence, Amazon.com Inc. violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by evading technological measures designed to prevent the scraping and downloading of copyright-protected online works, a trio of content creators say in an amended complaint seeking to represent a class of YouTube creators in a federal court in Washington.
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July 06, 2026
MILWAUKEE — A 315-acre Mount Pleasant, Wis., data center owned and operated by Microsoft Corp. currently uses “the energy demand of a medium-sized city” and is damaging nearby properties due to its “unreasonable” noise, three Sturtevant, Wis., residents allege in a class complaint filed in a federal court in their state.
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July 06, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — ChatGPT spent nearly a year actively aiding a 20-year-old student in planning a shooting at Florida State University, including providing guidance on the best times to do the shooting and how to ensure the most media coverage, a female student who was wounded in the shooting says in a complaint filed in a Florida court.
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July 01, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Artificial intelligence video and image company Midjourney Inc. asked a federal judge in California to review a magistrate judge’s ruling limiting discovery into whether various production studios are also training artificial intelligence models on copyrighted works, saying the evidence goes to fair use and unclean hands defenses and there is no basis for a distinction between public-facing uses and internal uses.
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July 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The filing of an amended complaint in an artificial intelligence-based hiring discrimination case did not eradicate the need for interlocutory appeal on the viability of the disparate-impact claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, but to the extent that it does, allowing the filing of a new motion for judgment would facilitate appellate review, Workday Inc. argues in a supplemental brief filed in a California federal court.
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July 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The limitations of large language models mean that a proposed witness’s prompting of ChatGPT and parroting of its outputs on whether an artificial intelligence model memorized works does not qualify him as an expert, defendants tell a judge in California federal court.
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July 01, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina federal judge issued a final consent judgment as to property landlord LivCor LLC in an antitrust suit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and multiple states against RealPage Inc., a commercial revenue management software company, and property landlords alleging that RealPage used nonpublic information obtained from landlords and ran the information through its algorithmic software to align pricing, thereby impeding the free market process.
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June 30, 2026
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A New York appellate court on June 23 imposed an $8,000 sanction on an attorney for submitting a brief with fake citations and quotes that he eventually admitted were likely the result of the use of artificial intelligence and added a $2,500 sanction for his law firm in an appeal of a ruling granting summary judgment in a trip-and-fall case.
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June 30, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on June 29 asked the publishers of nearly 400 local and regional newspapers why their copyright suit against Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI entities should not be stayed pending resolution of active summary judgment motions in the OpenAI multidistrict litigation.