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December 13, 2024
Children Charged After Allegedly Crafting Hundreds Of Nudes Of Students With AI

LANCASTER, Pa. — Two male students at a Pennsylvania school were charged in the juvenile system for allegedly creating and distributing hundreds of nonconsensual artificial intelligence-generated images of 60 girls, 48 of whom were students at the school, according to a release from the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office (LCDA).
December 11, 2024
OpenAI Challenges Ruling Denying Evidence Of New York Times’ AI Use

NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. objected to a magistrate judge’s decision denying the company access to evidence of how the New York Times Co. uses artificial intelligence, saying the ruling permits the newspaper company to speak “out of both sides of its mouth” by allowing it to seek billions of dollar in damages while embracing the same technology it denigrates.
December 11, 2024
Character.AI Faces 2nd Suit Claiming AI Harmed Child

MARSHALL, Texas — Character Technologies Inc. now faces at least two products liability and negligence actions stemming from interactions with its artificial intelligence chatbot after plaintiffs filed suit in a Texas federal court claiming that the technology lacks reasonable barriers and as a result advises children to oppose their parents and harm themselves and offers age-inappropriate sexual content.
December 03, 2024
COMMENTARY: The Future Of Work: Exploring The Employment And Data Protection Law Implications Of The Use Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) In European Workplaces

By Matthew Howse, Louise Skinner, Vishnu Shankar and William Mallin
November 21, 2024
COMMENTARY: Fine-Tuning Your Policy Statements For The Age Of AI

By Michael Kearney and Judy Branham
December 09, 2024
Alleging Price-Fixing, Doctors Sue MultiPlan, Insurers In Federal Court

CHICAGO — Alleging that they were paid only about 8% of what they billed for out-of-network services because of “a buyers’ cartel dating back to at least 2015,” medical practices that refer to themselves as doctors sued MultiPlan Corp., Aetna Inc., The Cigna Group, UnitedHealth Group Inc., Elevance Health Inc. and other entities in Illinois federal court, asserting numerous claims including some under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
December 05, 2024
Judge: OpenAI Must Produce Social Media; Company Disputes Discovery Destruction

NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. and various news entities that accuse it of using their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence briefed a federal judge in New York over whether discovery evidence was deleted or merely reformatted and presents no obstruction to ongoing searches of the training material. In a separate ruling, the judge concluded that the New York Times Co.’s knowledge and use of AI tools are not relevant or proportional to the needs of the defendants’ fair use defense and denied a motion to compel. In another ruling, the judge said California labor law does not preclude OpenAI Inc. entities and Microsoft Corp. from producing work-related communications conducted through social media.
December 05, 2024
OpenAI Disputes Claim It Ruined Discovery; Judge Denies Motion To Compel

NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. and various news entities that accuse it of using their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence briefed a federal judge in New York over whether discovery evidence was deleted or merely reformatted and presents no obstruction to ongoing searches of the training material. In a separate ruling, the judge concluded that the New York Times Co.’s knowledge and use of AI tools are not relevant or proportional to the needs of the defendants’ fair use defense and denied a motion to compel.
December 05, 2024
Minnesota Supreme Court Issues Warning After Brief Contains AI-Created Fake Cites

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Supreme Court denied leave to file an amended petition for review to correct fake citations created by artificial intelligence ChatGPT, saying the attorney failed to file an accompanying motion. The court went on to decline review of a ruling affirming dismissal of a personal injury action.
December 05, 2024
Judge Tosses CBD Gummies Suit Filed By Former Arkansas Governor Against Meta

WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal judge dismissed a suit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook Inc., asserting that Meta violated Arkansas state and common law by allowing unidentified third parties to post advertisements on Facebook that falsely claimed that Huckabee endorsed their cannabidiol (CBD) gummies, finding, in part, that Huckabee failed to plead the element of scienter necessary under Arkansas law.
December 05, 2024
Judge Relates Trio Of Cases Challenging California AI Election Law

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A trio of cases challenging recent California law governing dissemination and disclosure of deceptive political content created by artificial intelligence would benefit from being assigned to the same judge and magistrate judge, a federal judge in California said in relating the cases.
December 05, 2024
AI Deepfake Teen Victim Seeks ‘Novel’ Parental Duty, Defendant Says

TRENTON, N.J. — A 15-year-old victim of nonconsensual artificial intelligence pornography seeks to use New Jersey law in unintended ways and impose a “novel” and “fundamentally unfair” new duty on parents for their child’s every technological action, a boy accused of conspiring to create the deepfake images says in opposing the girl’s motion for leave to amend her complaint in federal court to add the boy’s parents and a second family as parties.
December 03, 2024
Texas Attorney Sanctioned Over AI’s Use In Employment Termination Case

BEAUMONT, Texas — An attorney who relied on artificial intelligence as the sole means to confirm citations and quotations in a brief opposing summary judgment in a wrongful termination case must pay $2,000 and attend legal training, a federal judge in Texas said in imposing sanctions including allowing the defendant to file a reply to the amended response, which it did Dec. 2.
December 03, 2024
Texas AI Disclosure Rule Applies To Briefs, Not Complaints, Judge Says

DALLAS — A court rule requiring parties to disclose the use of artificial intelligence applies only to briefing and therefore a pro se plaintiff could not have run afoul of it even if he used the technology to craft his amended complaint, a federal judge said while finding that the man’s breach of contract claim against a credit union survived a motion to dismiss.
November 27, 2024
OpenAI Disputes Claim It Ruined News Plaintiffs AI Search Results

NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. and various news entities that accuse it of using their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence briefed a federal judge in New York over whether discovery evidence was deleted or merely reformatted allowing the plaintiffs to rerun searches of the training material.
November 25, 2024
Hospitals Dismiss Suit Claiming Multiplan Uses AI To Depress Reimbursements

CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois granted two hospitals’ motion to voluntarily dismiss their action claiming that Multiplan Inc. and health insurers use artificial intelligence to suppress the price of out-of-network care.
November 22, 2024
COMMENTARY: 2024 Key Insurance Decisions, Trends & Developments & A Look Ahead To 2025

By Scott M. Seaman, Pedro E. Hernandez and Lisa M. Roccanova
November 22, 2024
AI Rental Discrimination Case Receives Judge Approval For $1.75M Settlement

BOSTON — A settlement providing for $1.75 million plus fees and incentives has resolved a class action alleging that an artificial intelligence-based renter scoring program discriminated against those utilizing state and federal housing vouchers and therefore Blacks and Hispanics after a federal judge in Massachusetts granted final approval of the deal.
November 22, 2024
Magistrate Judge: No Due Process Issues In Student AI-Cheating Case

BOSTON — Neither the novelty of artificial intelligence nor the way a school district handled discipline for a student who used the technology for a history project warrants a preliminary injunction reversing the punishments, a federal magistrate judge in Massachusetts said in denying a motion.
November 21, 2024
DOJ, States Argue That ‘Google Must Divest Chrome’ In Sherman Act Antitrust Suit

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a suit in which a federal judge overseeing the case previously determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and officials from numerous states on Nov. 20 urged the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to adopt their proposed final judgment, which includes requiring Google to divest web browser Chrome.
November 20, 2024
Plaintiffs: Health Care Pricing Algorithm Just High-Tech Price Fixing

CHICAGO — A consolidated amended class action filed in multidistrict litigation in an Illinois federal court claims that Multiplan Inc. and others rely on allegedly algorithmic repricing of out-of-network health claims to keep prices artificially low and that it is really just a “technological smokescreen for traditional price fixing.”
November 20, 2024
Journalism Plaintiff Defends ‘Abridgement’ Claims In AI Copyright Suit

NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence companies may not simply remove copyright management information from news stories, distribute the material among themselves and then create chatbots producing abridged and competing versions of the stories, the nonprofit publisher of Mother Jones told a federal judge in New York in opposing a motion to dismiss.
November 20, 2024
MosaicML AI Model Defendants Seek Consolidation Of Authors’ Lawsuits

SAN FRANCISCO — An artificial intelligence company asked a federal judge in California to consolidate three authors’ copyright class action lawsuit involving the training of large language models with a second suit also involving authors.
November 19, 2024
OpenAI Says No Malice, Damages In ChatGPT Defamation Case

ATLANTA — A man cannot show that anyone would believe ChatGPT’s fictional outputs about his alleged role in a lawsuit, and he cannot meet the actual malice standard required to show defamation of a public figure like a national radio host, OpenAI LLC says in a motion for summary judgment in a Georgia court.
November 19, 2024
Fair Use, Copyright At Issue In AI Legal Research Summary Judgment Briefing

WILMINGTON, Del. — Whether it was unlawful to train an artificial intelligence on a “vanishingly small” amount of protected legal research material and whether a copyright can even protect legal research product when the underlying materials were all in the public domain come before a federal judge in Delaware on briefing for motions for summary judgment. Redacted versions of the reply briefs were filed Nov. 18.