Mealey's Artificial Intelligence
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March 10, 2025
DOJ Revised Summary In Antitrust Suit Affirms Bid For Google’s Chrome Divesting
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a suit in which a federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and officials from numerous states on March 7 filed an executive summary of a revised proposed final judgment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that reaffirms the initial proposed final judgment requiring Google to divest web browser Chrome.
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March 07, 2025
Groups File Suit Accusing Elon Musk, DOGE Of Illegal AI-Based Employment Moves
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A quartet of advocacy groups sued Elon Musk, U.S. DOGE Service and others in District of Columbia federal court, accusing them of using artificial intelligence to make decisions about federal employment and government contracts despite the complete lack of statutory or other authority to do so.
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March 05, 2025
Judge Denies Musk Injunction In Spat Over OpenAI Structure
SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence company x.AI, Elon Musk and a second employee have not demonstrated a likelihood of success on antitrust and breach of charitable trust claims that would warrant enjoining how OpenAI is structured, a federal judge in California said March 4.
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March 04, 2025
Home Health Company Seeks Attorney Fees For Grappling With Fake AI Cites
ORLANDO, Fla. — A defendant home health services provider asks a federal judge in Florida for attorney fees and other sanctions after pro se plaintiffs filed a brief opposing a motion to dismiss that allegedly contained fake case citations and that “appears on its face to have been generated by an artificial intelligence (AI).”
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March 04, 2025
Student Wants Yale Enjoined From Suspending Him For Alleged AI Use
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A student asked a federal court in Connecticut for a temporary restraining order and injunction preventing Yale University from suspending him from its School of Management (SOM) as a punishment for allegedly using artificial intelligence (AI), saying the school’s failure to follow its own due process rules has “thrown into disarray” his life.
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March 04, 2025
Google, Alphabet Say AI Copyright Claims Lacking, Seek To Strike Class
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Whether plaintiffs satisfactorily registered copyrights, sufficiently detail their claims and could possibly justify injunctive relief in their consolidated action against Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. sits with a federal judge in California after briefing on motions to dismiss and strike class claims wrapped up in the artificial intelligence case.
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February 25, 2025
COMMENTARY: AI Risk: New Tech, Same Coverage
By Michael S. Levine, Alex D. Pappas and Torrye N. Zullo
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March 03, 2025
Microsoft Identifies Individuals Allegedly Involved In Unlawful AI Conduct
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Microsoft Corp. filed an amended complaint identifying four individuals previously listed as anonymous defendants who allegedly used the company’s artificial intelligence systems for unlawful purposes, including creating images of misogyny and deepfake intimate images of celebrities.
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March 03, 2025
Attorney’s AI Misuse Violated Rule 11, Judge Says In Imposing $2,500 Sanction
PHILADELPHIA — Like many technologies, reliance on artificial intelligence can assist users, but without appropriate human scrutiny its use quickly collapses into negligence, a federal judge in Pennsylvania said in sanctioning an attorney $2,500 for using six wrong or fake cites in a case over an investment gone bad.
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February 28, 2025
Magistrate Recommends Granting Judgment In Libel Row Over LinkedIn ‘Doo-Doo’ Post
NEW YORK — A New York federal magistrate judge recommended granting summary judgment to the defendant, a former officer in a company once owned by the plaintiff, a founder of a venture capital company, in a libel suit over the defendant’s posts on LinkedIn that purportedly gave the plaintiff the surname of “Doo-Doo head” and accused him of lack of knowledge about artificial intelligence, finding that the comment regarding AI “is non-actionable opinion.”
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February 28, 2025
Judge Won’t Let AI Copyright Plaintiffs Set Search Terms
SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs’ efforts at relitigating issues they lost undermines rulings designed to prevent delays, and the parties appear to be “taking turns to simply conjure up something about which to fight,” a judge overseeing consolidated federal copyright litigation in California involving artificial intelligence said Feb. 27 in denying requested discovery.
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February 26, 2025
Magistrate Judge Recommends Sanctions Of $15,000 For AI-Created Fake Cites
INDIANAPOLIS — A federal magistrate judge in Indiana recommended $15,000 as a sanction for an attorney who cited artificial intelligence-created cases, saying there was “simply no reason” to fall short of federal rules by not checking the accuracy of the cites.
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February 26, 2025
Judge Revokes Pro Hac Vice, Fines Attorneys Involved In AI-Hallucinated Cites
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — When done properly, artificial intelligence offers promise in the legal world, but where the failure to follow federal rules governing signing and submitting motions allows for the creation of a brief with AI-created fake cites, the situation warrants revoking pro hac vice status and imposing various fines, a federal judge in Wyoming said.
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February 25, 2025
Judge: Media Outlet Alleges Injury, Copyright Removal For Single DMCA Claim
NEW YORK — While Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) protections don’t exactly match with historical analogs, the act hews closely enough to protected property rights to provide injury, and a news organization adequately alleges that OpenAI entities removed copyright management information (CMI) from articles during the training of artificial intelligence, a federal judge in New York said while dismissing the remainder of the DMCA claims against OpenAI and Microsoft.
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February 25, 2025
Education Publisher Launches Sherman Act Suit Over Google AI Answers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Online education publisher Chegg Inc. filed a Sherman Act suit against Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. on Feb. 24 over their artificial intelligence search results, claiming the tech companies’ AI-powered overviews expand their existing choke-hold on generative search to online publishing.
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February 24, 2025
District Of Columbia Judges Debate AI In Opinion Nixing Animal Cruelty Conviction
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A judge in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals dissenting from an opinion vacating an animal cruelty conviction noted that artificial intelligence ChatGPT could distinguish between the dangers of leaving a dog in a hot car and leaving one outside on a cold day and that similar common sense could be used by a fact finder, while in a concurring opinion a second judge marveled at the technology’s potential risks and benefits.
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February 21, 2025
Citing ‘Glacial Pace,’ Plaintiffs In AI Copyright Suit Seek To Compel Discovery
SAN FRANCISCO — While the company behind the Claude artificial intelligence promises to produce discovery before upcoming deadlines, its “glacial pace” over the last four months necessitates a court order compelling the production by certain deadlines to ensure that it doesn’t benefit from further delay, plaintiffs in a copyright suit tell a federal judge in California in a Feb. 20 letter brief.
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February 21, 2025
Perplexity AI Says New York Court No Place For Copyright Suit
NEW YORK — A copyright lawsuit challenging an artificial intelligence-assisted search engine doesn’t belong in New York courts, Perplexity AI Inc. told a federal judge there while advocating for dismissal or transfer to a court in San Francisco.
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February 21, 2025
Attorneys Respond After Admitting AI ‘Hallucinated’ Cites In Hoverboard Fire Case
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In a quartet of filings, attorneys expressed dismay and embarrassment after admitting that artificial intelligence hallucinated citations in a recent motion seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony and explained to a federal judge in Wyoming the steps taken to help ensure that the mistake is not repeated.
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February 20, 2025
Judge Dismisses With Prejudice Pro Se Complaint Possibly Created With AI
LAS VEGAS — Mistaken quotations and case citations that a plaintiff claims are merely transcription errors more likely indicate that the plaintiff relied on artificial intelligence (AI) in crafting a complaint or simply fabricated cites, a federal judge in Nevada said in dismissing an action with prejudice.
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February 18, 2025
Court Won’t Require Judge To Explain Ruling Excluding AI-Obtained Evidence
CLEVELAND — A trial judge does not need to explain why he suppressed evidence after a suspect successfully argued that it was obtained through a warrant that relied on artificial intelligence facial recognition software that a company itself admits is not reliable, an Ohio appeals court said in denying a motion seeking to direct the judge to issue findings of fact.
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February 18, 2025
Parties To Musk’s Suit Over ChatGPT Funding Seek Dismissal
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk and his compatriots have no contract with OpenAI entities on which to base claims, have not shown any competitive injury from the artificial intelligence company’s deal with Microsoft Corp. and neither properly allege nor sufficiently point to an injury in fact for their California unfair competition law (UCL) claims, defendants in Musk’s fraud and racketeering suit told a federal judge in California in three motions to dismiss.
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February 14, 2025
Insurer’s Dismissal Motion Partially Denied In Suit Alleging It Illegally Employs AI
MINNEAPOLIS — A federal magistrate judge in Minnesota on Feb. 13 granted in part and denied in part an insurer’s motion to dismiss a class complaint alleging it illegally uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deny elderly insureds medically necessary care based on a model that the insurer knows “has a 90% error rate,” allowing breach of contract and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing claims to proceed.
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February 13, 2025
Judge Upholds Limits On Depositions, Discovery In ChatGPT Copyright Case
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California denied a motion for relief from a pretrial order, turning away arguments that limits on depositions were improper in such a complex copyright infringement case and that OpenAI entities’ income was relevant evidence in the case.
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February 12, 2025
Federal Circuit Says AI Researcher Again Fails To Show Government Took Research
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has again upheld the dismissal of a pro se complainant’s claims against the U.S. government, rejecting arguments that the government inappropriately used his research into artificial intelligence and that a judge in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims committed judicial misconduct in overseeing the case.