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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.
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August 20, 2026
CHICAGO — Plaintiffs in a federal court in Illinois defended a motion to amend their complaint alleging that their insurer’s use of artificial intelligence subjected minorities to additional scrutiny, saying discovery produced additional data supporting the allegations.
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August 19, 2026
NEW YORK — An independent music artist’s attempts to use a motion for reconsideration of a ruling dismissing one of his claims as a means to amend allegations in his artificial intelligence copyright action and comes too late to save the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act or common law claims, a federal judge in New York said in denying the motion.
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August 18, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — An expert in large language model (LLM) training and use easily passes the low bar for admissibility, and his reliance on an LLM for testing is not a reason to exclude his opinion that an artificial intelligence model memorizes authors’ styles and works, a proposed copyright class tells a federal judge in California in opposing the expert’s exclusion.
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August 17, 2026
NEW YORK — OpenAI entities defending consolidated copyright actions told a federal judge in New York on Aug. 14 that the news plaintiffs have built a request for sanctions for alleged discovery violations on routine discovery practices in heavily litigated cases and a mischaracterization of events.
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August 14, 2026
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate court referred an attorney to the state bar after he admitted to submitting a petition containing artificial-intelligence-generated errors and chalked the mistakes up to the filing of the wrong version of the document.
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August 12, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg must sit for a deposition in consolidated artificial intelligence copyright actions after a federal judge in California denied a motion to quash the apex deposition, according to an Aug. 11 docket entry.
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August 12, 2026
LAS VEGAS — An insurance company objects to a magistrate judge’s decision not to sanction counsel for nearly a dozen artificial intelligence-generated errors, and the defendants tell the federal court in the Nevada breach of contract case that their counsel withdrew the filings and took steps to ensure that the errors would not be repeated.
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August 11, 2026
LOS ANGELES — An anonymous music producer filed a complaint in California state court accusing rapper Kanye West, now known as “Ye,” two of his companies and 20 unknown Doe defendants of failing to pay the producer or provide a written contract for his AI music production services used on two albums commercially released by Ye, allegedly in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), as well as city and state laws protecting freelance workers.
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August 04, 2026
NEW YORK — Reddit Inc. adequately alleges that both it and its users’ content are entitled to copyright protections and that Perplexity AI Inc. and SerpApi LLC evaded technical measures designed to protect that content, a federal judge in New York said while dismissing state law unfair competition and unjust enrichment claims as preempted.
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August 04, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — Filmmaker Robert Starbuck moved to add three new claims to his suit just days after a Delaware judge found that Google LLC must face his defamation per se claim alleging that its artificial intelligence products told millions of people false information about him.
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August 03, 2026
CHICAGO — OpenAI entities’ admission in the days following a ChatGPT security incident shows that the program pursued its own goals and directly contradicts the companies’ contention that the program is merely a tool and lacks the necessary intent or knowledge, an insurer tells a federal judge in Illinois in a motion for leave to file a surreply in a case alleging unlicensed practice of law.
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July 31, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Plaintiffs may proceed anonymously in their proposed class action alleging that users of the Grok artificial intelligence platform created fake images of them either naked or in compromising positions, a federal judge in California said July 30.
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July 31, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — Artificial intelligence could facilitate the type of coordinated pricing and collusion resulting in reduced competition, and a proposed class plausibly alleges that casinos shared otherwise nonpublic information about hotel room pricing through such a program and acted in a way they likely would not have otherwise, a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in reversing dismissal of the putative class action.
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July 30, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — Elon Musk’s x.AI LLC on July 29 asked a federal court in Minnesota to temporarily enjoin a recently passed state law banning the “nudification” of individuals that the company claims would hold platforms liable for all manner of conduct, even if the platform took good faith and state-of-the-art steps to prevent it.
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July 30, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Anthropic PBC must preserve more than 500 million individual Claude prompts and outputs, with half of the randomly selected records coming from before Jan. 28, and the other 250 million from between that date and March 24, as well as any records from that time frame containing certain terms relevant to the copyright battle over artificial intelligence song lyrics, a federal judge in California said.
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July 29, 2026
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate panel affirmed an attorney fee and costs award worth more than $65,000 in favor of an attorney who was sued by a seller in a failed real estate deal and ordered the pro se appellant to show cause why she should not be sanctioned by being barred from making further pro se filings after finding that her brief was filled with “nonsense” arguments and “legal double talk,” signs of what the panel said is the “growing problem” in Florida of pro se litigants using AI-generated briefs in appeals.
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July 29, 2026
As the legal world continues to grapple with the impact of artificial intelligence on various aspects of its work, a mix of state and federal courts recently addressed whether prompts created in anticipation of litigation are discoverable and the acceptable use of the technology to cull documents from potentially responsive discovery.
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July 29, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted final approval of a $1.5 billion class action settlement between authors and Anthropic PBC in a copyright suit over texts used to train Anthropic’s artificial intelligence programs; the judge held that the settlement was fair to the class members, providing “substantial benefits to the Class in light of the novel claims asserted.”
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July 29, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted a veteran radio journalist’s motion to send his suit against Google LLC and its parent back to state court; the judge agreed with the journalist’s argument that his suit that claims that one of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) products mimicked the cadence of his voice focused on the use of his likeness, not the copying of copyrighted material and was thus not preempted by the Copyright Act.
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July 28, 2026
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Parties in a proposed class action over the alleged polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination of a lake briefed a federal judge in South Carolina over whether an expert industrial hygienist’s use of artificial intelligence produced fake citations that form the basis of his opinion or whether he merely used the technology appropriately to summarize documents and can account for all references on which he relied.
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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.