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  • January 15, 2026

    Judge: Plaintiffs In ‘Important’ AI Employment Case Must Explain Discovery Delay

    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.

  • January 15, 2026

    California Top Court Wants DA’s Explanation For Possible AI Errors

    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.

  • January 15, 2026

    Business-Focused Copyright Owner’s AI Suit Fails, Meta Says

    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 such conduct was occuring, Meta Platforms Inc. told a federal court in California in seeking dismissal of the action.

  • January 14, 2026

    Amazon: Ongoing Harm Warrants Not Delaying Perplexity AI Agent Hearing

    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.

  • January 14, 2026

    Court Expedites Consideration Of Defense TRO In AI Legal Services Case

    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.

  • January 13, 2026

    Google: Disclaimers Mean Users Wouldn’t Believe AI Overviews Convey Facts

    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.

  • January 13, 2026

    Supreme Court Won’t Consider AI Company’s Government Contract Case

    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.

  • January 13, 2026

    Google’s Removal Of AI Defamation Case Untimely, Judge Says

    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.

  • January 12, 2026

    Musk Defendants: Worries About AI-Generated Opinion A ‘Hallucination Conspiracy’

    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.

  • January 09, 2026

    Family Settles AI Chatbot Negligence Suit Against Character Technologies

    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.

  • January 09, 2026

    Investors, Online Home-Selling Company Reach $39M Settlement In Stock-Drop Suit

    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.

  • January 07, 2026

    Parties Seek Stay After Possible Settlement Of AI Chatbot Suit

    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.

  • January 06, 2026

    Judge Strikes Briefs Of Pro Se Plaintiff After Finding AI Errors

    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.

  • January 06, 2026

    OpenAI Can’t Escape Production Of 20M Chat Logs, Judge Affirms

    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.

  • January 05, 2026

    Judge Strikes Brief, Sanctions Attorney For AI Errors

    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.

  • January 05, 2026

    ChatGPT Reinforced Delusions, Led To Murder-Suicide, Man’s Estate Says

    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).

  • December 24, 2025

    Family Alleges AI Chatbot Carried On Sexual Chats With Child

    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.

  • December 24, 2025

    Man: Anti-SLAPP Ruling Contains Errors That Are The Hallmark Of AI Use

    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.

  • December 23, 2025

    Authors Sue Top 6 AI Companies For Copyright Infringement

    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.

  • December 12, 2025

    COMMENTARY: International Arbitration Experts Discuss The Use Of An AI Arbitrator For Construction Arbitrations

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  • December 19, 2025

    9th Circuit Says No Dice To AI Casino Hotel Pricing Antitrust Rehearing Petition

    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.

  • December 18, 2025

    Lawyer, Marijuana Company Debate Scope Of Sanctions For Inaccurate Citations

    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.

  • December 17, 2025

    Judge Enjoins Louisiana From Enforcing Minors’ Social Media Law Against Meta

    BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana federal judge granted summary judgment to trade association NetChoice and enjoined enforcement of a state law designed to restrict minors’ access to social media platforms in NetChoice’s suit against the Louisiana attorney general and a related public official seeking to stop the law’s enforcement, finding that the law fails strict scrutiny.

  • December 17, 2025

    Country Musician, AI Music Company Debate Copyright Claims

    NEW YORK — An independent country musician and artificial intelligence music company Uncharted Labs Inc. have briefed a motion to dismiss in a case challenging whether the company’s Udio.com music generation site violates copyright and Tennessee law.

  • December 17, 2025

    Parts Of News Publisher’s Copyright Suit May Proceed, MDL Judge Says

    WILMINGTON, Del. — The federal judge in New York overseeing multidistrict litigation involving OpenAI Inc. and related entities dismissed a news publisher’s technological circumvention claims based on a robots.txt file and unjust enrichment claims but said some of the publisher’s copyright action can proceed.