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June 27, 2023
Judge: Calif. Attorney Allowed To Act As Counsel In Montana Case If AI Not Used
MISSOULA, Mont. — A California attorney may appear as co-counsel in a personal injury case in a federal court in Montana against a dude ranch as long as the attorney does her own writing and signing, appears in person and does not use artificial intelligence (AI) automated drafting programs, a federal judge in Montana ruled, admitting the attorney pro hac vice on those conditions.
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June 26, 2023
Consumer Says AI-Powered ‘Robot Lawyer’ Can’t Compel Arbitration Of UCL Suit
SAN FRANCISCO — A consumer on June 23 filed a brief in California federal court opposing a motion to compel arbitration of his putative class claims including for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) against a company that operates an AI-based “robot lawyer,” writing that the company failed to provide evidence that it notified him of its arbitration agreement.
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June 26, 2023
Attorneys Sanctioned For Filing Brief With Fake Lawsuits Generated By ChatGPT
NEW YORK — Before determining that an injured airline passenger’s complaint against an airline is time-barred and must be dismissed, a New York federal judge sanctioned the passenger’s attorneys, ordering them to pay a $5,000 penalty to the court and write letters to a number of judges, for including fake citations and fake lawsuits produced by ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot application, in a response brief filed in New York federal court.
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June 26, 2023
Court Reporting Group Seeks Dismissal Of AI Software Company’s Antitrust Suit
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Court Reporters Association Inc. (TCRA) — one of a number of court reporting-related defendants accused by an artificial intelligence (AI) company with software designed to turn deposition speech into text of boycotting that business and another owned by the same individual — filed a reply June 23 in a federal court in Texas seeking dismissal of the antitrust lawsuit and arguing that there was no “actionable boycott.”
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June 26, 2023
Consolidated Class Suit Alleges Voice ID AI Software Violates Calif. Privacy Act
OAKLAND, Calif. — Three California citizens filed a consolidated class complaint in a federal court in their state accusing a software company of multiple privacy violations in connection with its artificial intelligence (AI) software that permits companies to authenticate customers’ identifies with their voice.
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June 21, 2023
Class Accuses Software Company, Others Of Using AI To Inflate Rental Housing Prices
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Renters filed an amended putative class complaint in a federal court in Tennessee accusing a software company and managers of large-scale apartments buildings of using machine learning and artificial intelligence to generate rental prices that they then adhere to “collectively raise market prices and avoid price competition.”
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June 20, 2023
School District Claims Social Networks Use AI To Create Addictive Environment
SAN FRANCISCO — A Maryland school district became the latest in a long string of school districts nationwide to bring suit against the most popular social media companies for mental health issues that it says spring from minors’ addiction to social media that the defendants stoke with algorithms fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), which is used to make appealing content suggestions for kids.
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June 15, 2023
Directors Want T-Mobile AI-Based Data Breach Securities Case Dismissed
WILMINGTON, Del. — Current and former company directors asked the Delaware Chancery Court to dismiss a derivative securities action claiming that T-Mobile US Inc.’s largest shareholder implemented a “hurriedly” enacted data mining plan designed to feed the owner’s machine learning and artificial intelligence platform, resulting in customer data breaches.
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June 15, 2023
On Heels Of Infringement Complaint, Tesla Seeks Review Of AI Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A recent request for inter partes review (IPR) filed by Tesla Inc. seeks cancellation of 20 claims of a patent directed to a system for autonomous device operation.
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June 05, 2023
COMMENTARY: Embracing AI: Why Small Law Firms Must Leverage Competitive Advantage
By Luis Salazar
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June 13, 2023
AI Marketing Company Sues AI Ad Firm For Contract, Trade Secret Violations
SAN ANTONIO — An artificial intelligence (AI) marketing firm filed suit against a company with which it had a business agreement, telling a Texas federal court that the company “lured [it] into providing access to its platform and proprietary assets” for the purpose of misappropriating them.
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June 12, 2023
With Eye Toward Confidential Business Info, Judge Imposes AI Restrictions
NEW YORK — Hoping to prevent the disclosure of confidential or propriety business information, a judge in an international trade court issued courtroom rules governing the “novel risks” posed by generative artificial intelligence.
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June 12, 2023
Copyright Owners Amend Complaint Against OpenAI Over GitHub AI Tool
OAKLAND, Calif. — Copyright owners filed an amended class action complaint alleging, among other things, violation of the California unfair competition law (UCL), saying OpenAI Inc. and others employed an artificial intelligence program for use on software hub GitHub that reproduces licensed code.
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June 12, 2023
Punish Conduct, Not Lawyer’s Use Of Tool Like ChatGPT, Amici Tells Court
NEW YORK — Courts should exercise caution in sanctioning attorneys and imposing rules surrounding the use of artificial intelligence to avoid negative fallout including impaired growth of the tool and its usage, a company representative says in an amicus brief after an attorney told a court that he was “truly mortified” to learn artificial intelligence ChatGPT simply made up the legal research he asked it to perform.
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June 08, 2023
ChatGPT’s Use In Brief Stemmed From Misunderstanding, Lawyer And Firm Say
NEW YORK — Counsel’s reliance on ChatGPT stemmed from a “fundamental misunderstanding” and at most demonstrates poor judgment, not bad faith or an intent to deceive the court, a lawyer and his law firm tell a federal judge in New York, responding to an order to show why sanctions shouldn’t be imposed.
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June 08, 2023
Georgia Man Claims ChatGPT Made Up Lawsuit Details, Defamed Him
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Artificial intelligence ChatGPT told a reporter that a lawsuit involved allegations that Mark Walters committed financial misconduct — going so far as to produce a fabricated complaint — even though Walters wasn’t employed by the company in question and isn’t involved in the case, Walters says in a state court complaint seeking damages from the program’s parent, OpenAI LLC.
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June 06, 2023
Parties Brief Dismissal In AI Lending Platform Securities Class Action
CINCINNATI — Optimistic statements about how an artificial intelligence lending platform would perform cannot form the basis of a securities class action, and the class never shows that the alleged misrepresentations were false, let alone false when they were made, defendants argue in a pair of reply briefs in support of motions to dismiss filed in an Ohio federal court.
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June 06, 2023
Lawyer Cites ChatGPT Responses In Declaration Supporting Attorney Fees
NEW YORK — An attorney in a federal court in New York supported his claim for fees by citing a conversation he had with artificial intelligence ChatGPT, saying in part that it was important to know what consumers with access to the technology would expect to pay.
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June 06, 2023
Judge: Lawyers Must Certify Whether They Used AI, Checked Its Accuracy
DALLAS — Lawyers must either certify that ChatGPT and other similar generative artificial intelligence played no role in the creation of a filing or that any language drafted by such programs was checked for accuracy against print reporters or traditional legal databases, a federal judge in Texas said.
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June 05, 2023
Stay Derivative Action, AI Lending Securities Defendants Say
WILMINGTON, Del. — Staying a derivative action pending the outcome of a securities class action involving allegations that a company overstated the ability of its artificial intelligence lending system would conserve both party and court resources, defendants tell the Delaware Chancery Court.
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June 02, 2023
Magistrate Quotes ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ In Setting AI Court Rules
CHICAGO — Any party relying on artificial intelligence for a filing must inform the court of the use and the specific tool used for research or writing, a federal magistrate judge in Illinois said in a new standing order.
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May 22, 2023
COMMENTARY: Intellectual Property Legal Issues Impacting Artificial Intelligence
By Edward D. Lanquist and Dominic Rota
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May 30, 2023
Judge Threatens Sanctions After ChatGPT-Produced Brief Cites Fake Cases
NEW YORK — An attorney and his law firm must appear at a June hearing to show why they should not be sanctioned for submitting an opposition brief with fake cites created through the use of artificial intelligence software ChatGPT, a federal judge in New York said May 26.
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May 30, 2023
Judge Denies Certified Question, Says Parties Must Unwind AI Merger Software Sale
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A company may rescind the sale of artificial intelligence software that analyzes mergers, acquisitions and other investments after prevailing on a fraudulent inducement claim, a federal judge in Ohio said after declining to certify a question to the Ohio Supreme Court.
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May 26, 2023
Magistrate: AI Concerns Among Reasons To Preclude Evidence Release In ERISA Case
SALT LAKE CITY — Citing in part potential concerns that competitors could use artificial intelligence and machine learning to create derivative products if a vendor’s health care guidance information were publicly released, a federal magistrate judge in Utah granted a motion for a protective order and rejected the argument that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act mandated release of the evidence.