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April 04, 2025
Magistrate Judge: OpenAI’s Definition Of Competitor ‘Wildly Overboard’

NEW YORK — OpenAI entities’ portrayal of a small Chilean company working on artificial intelligence language bias as a competitor is “wildly overbroad” and would render anyone working in the field of AI a competitor, a federal magistrate judge in New York said in denying a protective order seeking to shield certain documents from an expert witness.
April 03, 2025
AI Copyright Plaintiffs Ask Judge To Confirm Extension After Discovery Breach

SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs on April 2 asked a federal judge in California to enforce a recent ruling granting more time to respond to a summary judgment motion as result of the violation of a discovery agreement, saying the failure to turn over what the court already recognized as relevant evidence and its broad privilege claims are making responding “burdensome.”
April 03, 2025
Free Speech Protections Cover Humans, Not AI, Amici Tell Judge

ORLANDO, Fla. — First Amendment protections cover human speech and not just communication like that produced by artificial intelligence chatbots merely predicting what word comes next, an amicus told a federal judge in Florida presiding over a mother’s case alleging Character Technologies Inc.’s chatbot led her son to commit suicide.
April 02, 2025
Judge Allows Insureds’ ERISA, UCL Claims Against Cigna In AI Claims Denial Case

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part Cigna Corp. and its affiliate’s motion to dismiss insureds’ claims that they violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by allegedly denying coverage using an artificial intelligence algorithm.
April 02, 2025
Thomson Reuters Rebuts Need For Immediate Review Of AI Copyright Ruling

WILMINGTON, Del. — Interlocutory review in an artificial intelligence training copyright presents complicated issues of the type not permissible in immediate appeals and the resolution of any such appeal would not materially advance the case, Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH tells a federal judge in Delaware on April 1 in opposing Ross Intelligence Inc.’s attempt at quickly reversing a summary judgment ruling.
April 01, 2025
Magistrate Judge Won’t Sanction Pro Se Plaintiff For Fake AI Cites

ABINGDON, Va. — A federal magistrate judge in Virginia found no reason to doubt a pro se plaintiff’s contention that he used artificial intelligence without knowing that it could create fake cites in a motion to compel evidence in an advertising case and with no intent to fool the court and said she would not impose sanctions.
March 20, 2025
COMMENTARY: Antitrust, Algorithms, And AI: Increased Scrutiny, Unanswered Questions

By Alex Okuliar, Rob Manoso and Tyler Phelps
March 31, 2025
Maryland Court Affirms Constitutionality Of State’s AI Child Pornography Law

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland law banning child pornography of identifiable minors created with artificial intelligence or other computer methods does not substantially trample on free speech rights, and a trial court properly denied a motion to dismiss on constitutional grounds, the Maryland Appellate Court held.
March 28, 2025
Power Over Pricing Doomed AI Antitrust Suit, Casinos Tell 3rd Circuit

PHILADELPHIA — The varying reasons behind casinos’ decisions to utilize an artificial intelligence-powered hotel pricing program, the gap in time between the casinos’ use and the fact that power over actual pricing decisions always remained with the individual casinos were fatal to antitrust class claims and warranted their dismissal with prejudice, and the faulty claims cannot be cured by allegations first raised on appeal, Atlantic City casinos told the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
March 28, 2025
Judge Dismisses AI Infringement Claims In Music Lyric Suit

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Contributory infringement and vicarious infringement claims in a case alleging that a company’s artificial intelligence outputs copyrighted music lyrics fail to establish requisite acts by a third party, and contradictory allegations about the removal of copyright management information doom that claim, a federal judge in California said in granting a motion to dismiss while allowing leave to amend.
March 28, 2025
Some Claims Survive Dismissal In News Outlets’ AI Copyright Suit, Judge Says

NEW YORK — Direct and contributory infringement claims survive a motion to dismiss but Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unfair competition by misappropriation and abridgment claims largely do not, a federal judge in New York said in an order allowing amendment and promising release of a forthcoming opinion “expeditiously.”
March 26, 2025
Plaintiffs Drop 1 YouTube AI Training Suit, Let State Law Claims Be Dismissed

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted a voluntarily motion to dismiss California unfair competition law (UCL) and other state law claims from a pair of cases involving the use of YouTube videos in the training of artificial intelligence while the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed a third case in the wake of a motion to dismiss their amended complaint.
March 25, 2025
AI Chatbot Is A Product, Outputs Not Protected Speech, Mother Contends

ORLANDO, Fla. — The First Amendment protects speech and not the predictive text outputs by an artificial intelligence chatbot, but even if those outputs constituted speech, speech protections would not apply to the type of harmful chatbot outputs that led a teenager to commit suicide, a mother told a federal judge in Florida in opposing dismissal while arguing that Google LLC and its related entity can be held liable.
March 25, 2025
Judge Approves Settlement Of Consolidated Privacy Suit Over Photo Database

CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge granted final approval to a settlement of claims against the creator and curator of a massive digital photo database under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), finding that the settlement fund being based on the startup company’s equity is appropriate given the defendant’s “precarious” financial situation.
March 25, 2025
Copyright Plaintiffs: Microsoft Has Relevant Evidence In OpenAI Suit

SAN FRANCISCO — A magistrate judge imposed the wrong standard in concluding that Microsoft Corp. has to produce records related to OpenAI entities’ alleged copyright infringement because Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in the entities and their close relationship with the tech giant means Microsoft almost certainly possesses evidence relevant to the case, plaintiffs told a federal judge in California in seeking relief from the ruling.
March 24, 2025
Judge: Confidential Witnesses’ Vague Claims Can’t Keep AI Securities Case Alive

NEW YORK — Despite a heavy reliance on them, confidential witness statements do not establish that an artificial intelligence mobile messaging and customer engagement company intentionally concealed the difficulties faced by a machine learning health care company it purchased, a federal judge said in dismissing a securities action with prejudice.
March 24, 2025
Apple Misled Consumers As To IPhone 16’s ‘AI-Driven’ Functions, Consumer Says

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A consumer filed a putative class action lawsuit in California federal court accusing Apple Inc. of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other state consumer laws by misleading millions of consumers into buying its latest iPhone models by misrepresenting the artificial intelligence capacities that the iPhone 16’s “Apple Intelligence” and Siri software would offer.
March 24, 2025
With Court Weighing Sanctions For Fake AI Cites, Parties Seek To Skip Hearing

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Entities associated with a Sherman Act case involving Puerto Rico soccer entities tell a federal judge that until the court decides on whether to issue sanctions for the submission of briefs with nonexistent cites allegedly created by artificial intelligence and a motion to disqualify counsel, an upcoming settlement conference would be premature and should be vacated. On March 21, the plaintiffs filed their response agreeing that the hearing would not be productive.
March 21, 2025
Singapore AI Education Company Loses Bid To Drop Injunction Pending Arbitration

NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on March 20 denied as “procedurally improper” a Singapore-based artificial intelligence education company’s request to terminate a preliminary injunction, which was granted against it and a respondent shareholder entity pending an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration over an asset purchase worth at least $15 million, due to the respondent’s alleged failure to post a court-ordered $500,000 bond.
March 19, 2025
Copyright Act Contemplates Human Authors, Not AI, D.C. Circuit Affirms

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Copyright protections require a human author and the U.S. Copyright Office properly denied an application listing an artificial intelligence as the author, the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said March 18 in affirming a district court ruling.
March 18, 2025
Magistrate Judge Suggests $5,000 Sanction, Doubts Child’s Lesson Led To AI Cites

CHICAGO — A federal magistrate judge in Illinois recommended $5,000 in sanctions after saying an attorney’s claim that her brief came to include fake cites as a result of a lesson she was trying to teach her daughter about artificial intelligence “beggars belief” and that her “general lack of candor” after the fact suggests bad faith.
March 18, 2025
AI Search Engine Sufficiently Targets New York, Dow Jones Says

NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI markets its highly interactive website nationwide and is registered to do business in New York and transacts business in the state, providing a sufficient anchor to the jurisdiction, Dow Jones & Co. Inc. and a related affiliate tell a federal judge in opposing dismissal or transfer.
March 13, 2025
AI Plaintiffs Say Meta’s Torrenting Is Clear Copyright Violation

SAN FRANCISCO — Meta Platforms Inc.’s torrenting of protected works to secure material to train its artificial intelligence constitutes a copyright violation and is not protected by fair use, plaintiffs tell a federal judge in California.
March 13, 2025
Judge Grants Stay In AI-Election Case During Appeal Of Injunction Ruling

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge in Minnesota on March 12 granted a stipulated stay in a case challenging Minnesota’s law regulating artificial intelligence-created political advertising while the social media personality and a state politician at the heart of the suit appeal his ruling denying them injunctive relief.