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November 03, 2026
OXFORD, Miss. — Holding that the NAACP has statutory standing under the Clean Air Act (CAA), that gas combustion turbines are not “mobile sources” under Mississippi’s State Implementation Plan (SIP) and that citizen suit provisions do not violate the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against xAI Corp. and an energy infrastructure affiliate over the construction and operation of dozens of turbines that power a Memphis, Tenn., data center.
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November 03, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The First Amendment’s technologically neutral rules should apply to generative artificial intelligence outputs, or millions may see their rights affected, two advocacy groups argue in an amicus brief filed in a Florida federal court product liability and failure-to-warn case.
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November 03, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Whether Cigna Corp.’s use of artificial intelligence to deny medical claims satisfies standards under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and California unfair competition law (UCL) involves common questions and answers, and the case deserves class status, two insureds tell a federal judge in seeking class certification.
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October 30, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — In an amended complaint, Amazon.com Services LLC continues to argue that accessing its website with unapproved software constitutes a violation, the very position the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected, and a newly added state law claim does not save the case, Perplexity AI Inc. tells a federal judge in California in urging dismissal of the suit.
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November 02, 2026
TYLER, Texas — In a pair of rulings in a securities case involving promotion of fracking and COVID-19 virus products, a federal magistrate judge granted a motion for reconsideration, vacating a ruling after he was told he erroneously found that a party failed to respond to a motion to quash a third-party subpoena. Meanwhile, the judge in the case said that going forward all parties must certify whether they used artificial intelligence in drafting filings and that the court may ignore anything not generated by a human.
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October 29, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A Chinese immigrant and machine-learning engineer died after ChatGPT provided her with a schedule to reduce dosage of her doctor-prescribed anti-seizure medication, assuring her that the day-by-day schedule it created would absolutely help her avoid side effects she believed might jeopardize her ability to remain in the United States, parents say in a complaint alleging eight causes of action, including negligence and violation of the California unfair competition law.
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October 28, 2026
DALLAS — Confidential material about software design, development and implementation in a case alleging that electronic health care programs contributed to a father’s death may be entered into artificial intelligence systems only if the systems are contractually barred from using the data for training, a federal judge in Texas said in granting a protective order.
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October 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Employees of an airline filed a petition for writ of certiorari seeking high court review of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling affirming a lower court’s dismissal of their suit alleging in part that their employer’s protocols related to the COVID-19 pandemic created a hostile work environment, asserting that the appellate court should have given “weight to the allegation that the refusal was religious.”
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October 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rejecting a challenge filed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to an arbitration award issued over the department’s implementation of a presidential memorandum that ordered federal employees to return to in-person work, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) held that HHS failed to establish any valid grounds to overturn the award and flagged a litany of “fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant” citations in its brief supporting its exceptions to the award that may have derived from the use of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
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October 27, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A coalition of 31 states and the District of Columbia filed an objection to a Character Technologies Inc. motion seeking approval of the bidding process and Disney Worldwide Services Inc.’s status as a stalking horse in its bankruptcy, urging the court not to use the bidding process to bless the prepetition activities of the two companies and instead choose a process that gives third-party bidders a fair chance.
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October 27, 2026
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal magistrate judge issued a report and recommendation advising that a court should dismiss a putative class action accusing horse racing betting companies and certain computer-assisted wagering (CAW) companies of participating in a scheme with a group of privileged bettors by using computer technology and algorithms based upon artificial intelligence to “rig” betting pools and divert money away from average bettors, saying in part that the suit should be dismissed for lack of standing.
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October 26, 2026
MCKINNEY, Texas — Texas on Oct. 23 became the latest state to sue OpenAI entities, claiming that the defendants portray their ChatGPT flagship product as safe, accurate and reliable despite the “incredible dangers” it poses.
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October 26, 2026
OXFORD, Miss. —The United States, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, filed an intervenor complaint as a plaintiff on Oct. 23 in a lawsuit filed in a federal Mississippi court by the NAACP against xAI Corp. and an energy infrastructure affiliate over the construction and operation of dozens of gas combustion turbines that power a Memphis, Tenn., data center and asserted a cross-claim for a declaration that the Clean Air Act (CAA) authorizes the government to dismiss the citizen suit and that the suit cannot proceed over its objection.
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October 26, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued the mandate in an artificial intelligence hotel pricing case after declining to rehear a ruling in which a panel reversed a judge’s finding that a proposed class had not adequately alleged that the use of algorithmic pricing tools constituted a conspiracy to fix hotel prices.
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October 23, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 22 vacated a preliminary injunction in a putative class lawsuit barring enforcement of a new Mississippi law, House Bill 1193, that prevents government-run schools and post-secondary institutions from requiring diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) activities and ordered that the case must be reassigned on remand to a different judge, calling the trial court proceedings “a botch job.”
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October 22, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A federal magistrate judge in California dismissed a copyright lawsuit after the digital creator behind the popular internet meme “Running Away Balloon” art and an artificial intelligence marketing company that allegedly infringed on the copyright by making the two-box comic available on its site resolved the case.
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October 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A negligence and failure-to-warn suit brought by British Columbia government entities over a mass shooting allegedly assisted by ChatGPT belongs in Canada, where questions of first impression involving Canadian law are best answered, where the event took place and where the evidence and witnesses regarding the shooter’s conduct and mental health treatment are located, OpenAI entities told a federal judge in California in seeking dismissal for forum non conveniens.
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October 21, 2026
JACKSON, Tenn. — A pro se plaintiff’s artificial intelligence-assisted motions to amend fail to correct the defects in his complaint, and because amendment would be futile, his civil rights action must be dismissed with prejudice, a federal judge in Tennessee said Oct. 20.
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October 21, 2026
WICHITA FALLS, Texas — A woman suing various Elon Musk companies after their Grok artificial intelligence platform allegedly created explicit images of her must face the companies’ breach of contract claims resulting from her decision to sue in New York rather than Texas as dictated by the terms of service, a federal judge in Texas said in denying her motion to dismiss on Oct. 20.
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October 20, 2026
LAS VEGAS — Partly granting only an objection concerning the use of ChatGPT by an expert witness, a Nevada federal judge mostly upheld a magistrate judge’s bench order concerning discovery in an excessive force case, ruling that “all case summary responses supplied by ChatGPT” had to be disclosed but “1) questions and prompts to ChatGPT, 2) use of the program to create a deposition outline, and 3) creation of a draft report are all protected from disclosure.”
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October 20, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — In a supplemental brief filed after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there was a search in a geofence warrant case and remanded for the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to address other issues, the government reiterates its arguments that the warrant “satisfied the Fourth Amendment’s requirements of probable cause and particularity” and “the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule precludes suppression.”
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October 15, 2026
DES MOINES, Iowa — OpenAI entities advertise their ChatGPT as safe, even as the artificial intelligence product hands out dangerous medical advice and encourages users to harm themselves and others, Iowa says in an Oct. 14 consumer protection lawsuit filed at the same time as seven other states launched similar actions.
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October 15, 2026
DALLAS — A pro se litigant saw her breach of contract lawsuit dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and a Texas federal judge issued her a warning for filing documents with artificial intelligence-generated citation errors.
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October 15, 2026
CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois granted a motion to strike two filings by the woman behind a dispute between an insurer and OpenAI entities it claims allowed ChatGPT to practice law without a license, and the judge for the fourth time continued a status conference in the case, resetting the hearing for Dec. 2.
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October 14, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — The artificial intelligence company behind the Character.AI chatbot platform filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Delaware bankruptcy court, citing between $50 million and $100 million in liabilities, including creditor claims by former investor Google LLC, various law firms, a minor plaintiff and two states with litigation claims against the company.