Immigration attorney hit with sanctions for using Claude to generate fake case citations

A federal court imposed sanctions on a petitioner's attorney for submitting fabricated legal quotations generated by the AI tool Claude Sonnet 4 in an emergency . . .

Court gives X opportunity to raise Section 230 claim in deepfake case

X  sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a state law that prohibits the dissemination of AI-generated political deepfakes, arguing the statute violates the First . . .

Relying on AI for help in discovery meet-and-confer was not good faith

When a party in a lawsuit claims that the other side is not fully responding to discovery requests, that party can file a motion to . . .

Pro se litigant cited AI hallucinated cases but court found no harm, no foul

A bankruptcy case took a turn during a hearing when the court asked the pro se debtor how he had found the cases he cited . . .

Court limits use of trademark for forthcoming AI-powered agentic browser

A technology company sued artificial intelligence company Perplexity for trademark infringement and unfair competition. Plaintiff claimed exclusive rights to the mark COMET, which it used . . .

Facial recognition missteps lead to dismissal in New York criminal case

A criminal defendant sought dismissal of a criminal charge for aggravated harassment in the second degree. An issue arose after law enforcement identified defendant using . . .

X can claim trespass to chattel in data scraping case

X Corp. sued Bright Data Ltd. for unauthorized access to X's servers and the scraping and resale of data from X’s platform. Plaintiff sought the . . .

Footnote in opinion warns counsel not to cite AI-generated fake cases again

A federal judge in Wisconsin suspected that one of the parties appearing before the court had used generative AI to write a brief, which resulted . . .

Key Takeaways From the USPTO’s Guidance on AI Use

On April 10, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") issued guidance to attorneys about using AI in matters before the USPTO. While . . .

VIDEO: AI and Voice Clones – Tennessee enacts the ELVIS Act

  Generative AI enables people to clone other peoples' voices. And that can lead to fraud, identity theft, or intellectual property infringement. On March 21, . . .