A federal judge’s ruling in United States v. Heppner has become an early warning for lawyers, clients, and companies using generative artificial intelligence in legal matters: conversations with public AI chatbots may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine.The February 17 decision by U.S. District Judge... Read More »
Amazon has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle federal allegations that it denied identity theft victims access to business records they needed to investigate fraudulent transactions made with their personal information.The Justice Department filed the case June 29 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after... Read More »
A federal judge in Florida has dismissed a $25 million copyright lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift by an amateur poet, marking the second time the same plaintiff has had nearly identical claims thrown out of court.U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled Monday that Kimberly Marasco, who filed the complaint without... Read More »
Prince Harry and six other public figures have lost their High Court privacy battle against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, after a judge ruled they had not produced sufficient evidence to back up their claims of unlawful newsgathering.Justice Nicklin, who presided over the... Read More »
Apple is asking a federal judge in California to shut down a proposed class action accusing the company of dodging a court order meant to let app developers steer customers toward cheaper, outside payment options, arguing the developers behind the case already gave up this exact fight once before.The company... Read More »
Entertainment agency Roc Nation has asked a federal judge in New York to strike portions of a legal brief filed by Terrance Dixon in an ongoing sanctions dispute, alleging that the filing relies on fabricated quotations that appear to have been generated by artificial intelligence rather than pulled from actual... Read More »
Netflix pressed a federal judge in California to force a Finnish businessman, Lauri Valjakka, and his former patent attorney to jointly pay roughly $3 million in legal fees, arguing that both men pursued patent litigation against the company despite knowing the underlying patent claim was invalid from the start. During a... Read More »
A federal judge in California has declined to shut down a sprawling copyright lawsuit over the origins of the rhythmic backbone of reggaeton music, ruling that both sides fell short of the bar needed to win the case outright and that a jury will ultimately have to sort out the... Read More »
California drivers have filed a proposed class action accusing major gas station operators and a fuel-pricing software company of using artificial intelligence to keep gas prices higher than they would be in a competitive market.The lawsuit, filed June 22 in federal court in Sacramento, names Kalibrate, the company behind an... Read More »
A federal judge in Michigan has thrown out evidence gathered from a stack of computers, phones and storage devices seized from Matthew Weiss, a former University of Michigan assistant football coach accused of hacking into the online accounts of female college athletes, ruling that the state search warrants used to... Read More »
