Mealey's Artificial Intelligence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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December 15, 2025
President Trump Issues Executive Order Preempting Many State AI Laws
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States should operate with minimally burdensome artificial intelligence regulation at the national level, President Donald J. Trump said in an executive order directing the attorney general to investigate and challenge state laws that are inconsistent with that position.
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December 15, 2025
Man: Google Can’t Hide Behind Disclaimer In AI Overviews Defamation Case
CHICAGO — Google LLC cannot rely on disclaimers that allegedly appeared with AI Overviews to convert verifiable facts about a person into opinions or expect viewers to undertake a scholar-like investigation into the truth of the statements, a man tells a federal judge in Illinois in a Dec. 12 opposition brief.
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December 15, 2025
Judge Issues $13K Sanction Against OnlyFans Plaintiffs’ Counsel For AI Usage
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on Dec. 12 ordered plaintiffs’ attorneys to pay $13,000 for filing “AI-tainted” briefs in the court and denied their motion to withdraw and amend those briefs and in separate orders refused to reconsider the enforceability of OnlyFans’ forum selection clause and dismissed the plaintiffs’ claims against OnlyFans’ owners and content creators’ agencies for deceptively marketing “chats” to subscribers.
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December 11, 2025
Noting AI Fabrications, Other Issues, Judge Sanctions Pro Se Disability Claimant
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two days after the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a pro se litigant’s petitions for writs of mandamus in a dispute involving long-term disability (LTD) benefits, an Ohio federal judge on Dec. 10 issued an amended ruling designating him a vexatious litigant, dismissing his case without prejudice and imposing sanctions including a $1,500 penalty and a three-part filing restriction, highlighting “his repeated failure to appear” and “his (apparently ongoing) use of AI resulting in fabricated citations.”
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December 10, 2025
Magistrate Judge Recommends Denying Injunctive Relief In AI Discipline Challenge
NEW YORK — A federal district court lacks jurisdiction over a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ referral of an attorney to a grievance panel based on its conclusion that she misused artificial intelligence, and the attorney has not demonstrated a likelihood of success otherwise, a magistrate judge said in recommending that the court deny injunctive relief.
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December 10, 2025
Judge Won’t Stay AI Discrimination Case Pending U.S. Supreme Court Petitions
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California declined to stay an artificial intelligence age discrimination case while the U.S. Supreme Court considers a pair of petitions involving Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) collective actions, saying any harm from having to reassess the notice process is speculative and does not outweigh the harm the plaintiffs would experience from the delay.
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December 10, 2025
COMMENTARY: Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Discuss How Insurers Will Approach Artificial Intelligence Liability Issues
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December 09, 2025
Government, Procurement Company Urge Rejection Of AI Image Company Petition
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An appellate court merely confirmed existing precedent in finding that “interested parties” in the statutes governing the federal procurement process refers only to actual or prospective bidders, and the ruling does not require review by the U.S. Supreme Court, the government and a procurement company told the court on Dec. 8.
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December 09, 2025
Recap Of Some Major Rulings And Developments In AI-Copyright Cases In 2025
It has been more than five years since a news organization filed the first lawsuit challenging the training of artificial intelligence using copyrighted material. Since that time, there have been dozens of similar suits filed, the creation of multidistrict litigation, certification of a class action, several ground-breaking rulings and one potentially precedent-setting settlement. This story looks at some of the biggest developments in the litigation in 2025 and where those cases stand now.
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December 09, 2025
Attorney’s Remedies Are Sufficient To Avoid AI Misuse Sanctions, Judge Says
PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon declined to impose sanctions for misuse of artificial intelligence in a trademark case after an attorney took responsibility for hallucinated cites and the plaintiff and its attorneys waived associated attorney fees and said they would undertake efforts to educate about the proper uses of the technology in the legal profession.
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December 09, 2025
Calif. Court Imposes $5K Sanction For Fake Citations In Workplace Violence Case
LOS ANGELES — A California appellate court imposed a $5,000 sanction on an attorney who filed a brief that miscited case holdings and a case cite and largely published a previously unpublished opinion affirming that a firefighter’s complaints about workplace conditions and references to a recent shooting involving a colleague warranted a workplace violence restraining order.
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December 08, 2025
COMMENTARY: D&O Liability & Coverage: 2025 Trends, Developments & Decisions
By Scott M. Seaman and Pedro E. Hernandez