Data and AI in court

Active cases433Dates ahead9

433 active cases · 9 dates ahead

The brief · Thu Nov 5

A quiet day; the week: In DOJ: Roblox, a man pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after using the platform to meet minors, highlighting user safety compliance exposure for consumer tech platforms. Looking ahead, a Motion to Dismiss Hearing in Kahn v. Anthropic is scheduled for November 6, 2026, in the US District Court, Northern District of California. This upcoming hearing will help AI leaders assess vendor legal exposure and copyright risks.

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What to do

  1. Monitor the November 6, 2026 motion to dismiss hearing in Kahn v. Anthropic for AI vendor risk.

Next 2 weeks

hearings and rulings
Securitiesin 8 daysIn re Seagate Technology Holdings plc Securities LitigationOn July 10, 2023 and July 26, 2023, two securities class action lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Seagate Technology Holdings plc, Dr.Final Approval Motion Hearing, Nov 17N.D. Cal.
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Coming up

to three months
December 2026
Consumer protectionin 23 daysGavalas sued v. Google (Gemini)Wrongful death suit alleging Google's Gemini chatbot reinforced a user's fatal delusions.Further Case Management Conference, Dec 2N.D. Cal.Copyrightin 35 daysDow Jones sued v. PerplexityThe Wall Street Journal and New York Post publishers say Perplexity copies their articles to answer questions.Telephone Conference, Dec 14S.D. N.Y.CopyrightUnverifiedin 38 daysCarreyrou sued v. Anthropic PBCSued for copyright infringement.Motion to Dismiss Hearing, Dec 17N.D. Cal.
January 2027
Copyrightin 64 daysJamendo sued v. NVIDIAJamendo alleges NVIDIA used its music catalog to train audio AI models without permission.Initial Case Management Conference, Jan 12N.D. Cal.
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New cases

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October 2026
Consumer protectionUnverifiedfiled Oct 28DOJ: RobloxRochester man who used Roblox to meet minors pleads guilty to child pornography chargeDOJAntitrustUnverifiedfiled Oct 22CMA: LidlPotential designation of Aldi and Lidl under the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010UK CMAConsumer protectionUnverifiedfiled Oct 20DOJ: InstacartCivil Rights Division and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Secure $5,000,000 Joint Settlement with Instacart for Discriminating Against U.S. WorkersDOJCopyrightUnverifiedfiled Oct 20Dow Jones & Company, Inc. sued v. Bradstreet & Company, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.S.D. OhioConsumer protectionUnverifiedfiled Oct 19California AG: 23andMeAttorney General Bonta Secures $6 Million Settlement in 23andMe LitigationCalifornia Attorney GeneralAntitrustUnverifiedfiled Oct 19FTC: PublicisFTC Order Preserves Competition in Digital Advertising Ecosystem as Part of Publicis’s Acquisition of LiveRampFTCConsumer protectionUnverifiedfiled Oct 16DOJ: ClouderaU.S Departments of Justice and Labor Secure Settlement with Cloudera, Enforce Two-Year PERM Debarment & Back Pay Following Discrimination Against U.S. WorkersDOJEmploymentUnverifiedfiled Oct 14Brown sued v. Baker Hughes Energy Services LLCSued for employment discrimination.W.D. Okla.Consumer protectionUnverifiedfiled Oct 9Italian DPA: IQVIAItalian DPA fines IQVIA EUR 7 000 000 for unlawful processing of patients’ health dataItalian DPAConsumer protectionUnverifiedfiled Oct 8DOJ: City and County of DenverJustice Department Files Complaint Against the City and County of Denver, Colorado Challenging Mask Ban and Identification Requirements for Federal OfficersDOJConsumer protectionUnverifiedfiled Oct 8Swedish DPA: MiljödataSwedish DPA fines Miljödata i Karlskrona approximately EUR 160 000 for insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information securitySwedish DPACopyrightUnverifiedfiled Oct 5Elsevier Inc. sued v. Meta Platforms, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.
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Latest

decisions and filings
DecisionOct 28DOJ: RobloxRochester man who used Roblox to meet minors pleads guilty to child pornography chargeDecisionOct 22CMA: LidlPotential designation of Aldi and Lidl under the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010FilingOct 20Dow Jones & Company, Inc. sued v. Bradstreet & Company, Inc.Case filedDecisionOct 20DOJ: InstacartCivil Rights Division and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Secure $5,000,000 Joint Settlement with Instacart for Discriminating Against U.S. WorkersDecisionOct 19California AG: 23andMeAttorney General Bonta Secures $6 Million Settlement in 23andMe LitigationDecisionOct 19FTC: PublicisFTC Order Preserves Competition in Digital Advertising Ecosystem as Part of Publicis’s Acquisition of LiveRampConsumer protectiondocket Oct 22A.C. sued v. Altman (Tumbler Ridge)Lead case among about 30 coordinated suits by survivors and families of the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia school shooting alleging OpenAI flagged the shooter's ChatGPT account but failed to warn police.N.D. Cal.Copyrightdocket Oct 15Nazemian sued v. NVIDIAAuthors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene and Stewart O'Nan allege NVIDIA trained its NeMo Megatron models on the Books3 dataset of pirated books; consolidated with Dubus v. NVIDIA.N.D. Cal.Copyrightdocket Oct 14EVOX Productions sued v. GoogleEVOX alleges Google used its copyrighted vehicle images to train image generation models.N.D. Cal.Consumer protectiondocket Oct 9FTC sued v. Uber (Uber One subscriptions)The FTC alleged Uber billed consumers for Uber One without consent, failed to deliver promised savings and made the subscription hard to cancel.N.D. Cal.Trade secretsdocket Oct 6United States sued v. Linwei DingFederal prosecutors charged a former Google engineer with stealing AI chip and supercomputing trade secrets while working for China-based companies.N.D. Cal.Contractdocket Oct 5Google sued v. SerpApiGoogle alleges SerpApi circumvents its anti-scraping protections to harvest and resell search results, in violation of the DMCA.N.D. Cal.
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