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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • December 08, 2025

    COMMENTARY: D&O Liability & Coverage: 2025 Trends, Developments & Decisions

    By Scott M. Seaman and Pedro E. Hernandez

  • December 05, 2025

    COMMENTARY: Deepfakes In Litigation: Navigating Suspicion, Evidence And Forensic Analysis

    By Phil Beckett

  • December 08, 2025

    High Court Rejects Bid To Consider Federal Circuit 1st Impression AI Patent Ruling

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 8 rejected a machine learning patent holder’s petition for a writ of certiorari in which the company contended that the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling on a matter of first impression that affirmed the invalidation of the patents for describing the abstract concept of machine learning without pointing to specific improvements was erroneous; the company told the high court that the Federal Circuit’s approach to patent eligibility “flouts this Court’s instruction to consider preemption.”

  • December 08, 2025

    Judge Issues Judgment Outlining Injunctions In Antitrust Suits Against Google

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In consolidated suits in which a District of Columbia federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the judge on Dec. 5 issued an opinion and final judgment outlining prohibitory injunctions, including requiring Google not to condition the licensing of Google Play on the distribution or license “of any Google GenAI [emerging generative artificial intelligence] Product on any device sold in the United States.”

  • December 05, 2025

    Judge Rebukes AI Use By Plaintiff In Counterfeiting Suit Against New Balance

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An “experienced” pro se litigant’s response to New Balance Athletics Inc.’s motion to dismiss his trademark infringement suit was riddled with factual errors, thanks to his use of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) program in drafting the response, an Arkansas federal judge held; the judge struck the response to the motion but also denied the motion itself.

  • December 05, 2025

    Oregon Appeals Court Sanctions Attorney Over Fake Cites, Quotes

    PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Court of Appeals sanctioned an attorney $2,000 for submitting a brief containing two fake citations and a fake quotation but said the respondent can refile a corrected version of the previously stricken brief with certain restrictions.

  • December 05, 2025

    Indictment Claims ChatGPT Encouraged Man’s Harassing Conduct Toward Women

    PITTSBURGH — A man used ChatGPT as a therapist and best friend and cited its encouragement as he messaged women without their consent and frequented gyms to find a wife, where he harassed the women and employees of the businesses, the United States alleges in an indictment.

  • December 05, 2025

    9th Circuit Affirms TRO Enjoining OpenAI From Use Of ‘IO’ Mark

    SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) that bars a company recently purchased by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI LLC from using marks that could potentially cause confusion with another technology company with a similarly pronounced name.

  • December 04, 2025

    Magistrate Judge Affirms OpenAI Must Produce 20 Million ChatGPT Chat Logs

    SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI Inc. defendants must produce 20 million ChatGPT outputs in a consolidated copyright action against it, a magistrate judge in New York affirmed in denying a motion for reconsideration after finding the evidence relevant and proportionate.

  • December 04, 2025

    Judge Certifies Alexa Voice ID Biometric Data Class Suit, Excludes Named Plaintiff

    CHICAGO — A named plaintiff who signed up for Amazon.com Inc.’s Voice ID program after the filing of a suit would be subject to unique defenses that render him unfit to be a class representative, a federal judge in Illinois said while certifying claims that the company violated Illinois law by collecting certain biometric data through its Alexa artificial intelligence system.

  • December 04, 2025

    Bloomberg Must Face Book Copyright Owners’ Suit, Judge Says

    NEW YORK — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and others successfully allege copyright ownership and that two Bloomberg companies used their protected works as training material for their artificial intelligence, a federal judge in New York said in denying a motion to dismiss.

  • December 04, 2025

    Magistrate Judge Orders OpenAI To Produce Dataset-Deletion Communications

    NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. entities waived any attorney-client privilege protecting communications by offering shifting positions that resulted in the disclosure of some of the purportedly privileged reasons for the deletions and by putting their state of mind at issue, a federal magistrate judge in New York said in ordering production of the evidence.

  • December 04, 2025

    Google Accuses AI Copyright Plaintiffs Of ‘Litigation-By-Ambush’

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google LLC opposed a motion to certify a class action and asked a federal judge in California to strike the allegations with prejudice as a sanction for artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ “midnight switch” of proposed classes and subclasses.

  • November 26, 2025

    Supreme Court Seeks Response In ‘Paradise’ AI Art Copyright Case

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — One day after distributing a case for conference, the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 26 asked for a response from the federal government in a case in which a man claims that lower courts erred by finding that his artificial intelligence-generated artwork was not entitled to copyright protections.  The man previously asked the court to stay the case while courts decide whether Shira Perlmutter can continue to serve as head of the U.S. Copyright Office.

  • November 26, 2025

    DOJ Files Proposed Judgment In Antitrust Row With Rental Market Software Company

    GREENSBORO, N.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a proposed final judgment in a North Carolina federal court in an antitrust suit against RealPage Inc., a commercial revenue management software company, alleging that RealPage used nonpublic information obtained from landlords and runs the information through its algorithmic software to align pricing, thereby impeding the free market process.