Category: In the Courts
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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment does not allow states to bar former president Donald Trump from state primary ballots. The justices, in a unanimous opinion, agreed states could not bar candidates for the presidency under that constitutional provision –focusing on legal issues and not taking a… Read More
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On Feb. 29, Elon Musk sued OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for breach of contract in San Francisco County, alleging the start-up company deserted its core mission of developing AI for the “benefit of humanity” and was instead focused on profit. Musk filed the lawsuit in California Superior Court, shining a light on the intense opposition… Read More
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On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case concerning laws passed in Florida and Texas over whether state governments are allowed to create rules to address social media companies’ alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints on their platforms. The social media companies argued that the state laws were prompted by conservative-led complaints over… Read More
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A group of artists filed a lawsuit against three tech companies that created chatbots used to turn text prompts into AI-generated images. The lawsuit is one among many that artists have filed in the past year alleging infringement through use of billions of copyrighted images scraped from the internet. The plaintiff-artists argue that AI chatbots… Read More
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In February, two class action lawsuits were filed against dating app companies. Both lawsuits were filed against Match Group LLC. (Match Group) –its portfolio of brands that includes Tinder, Hinge, and Match, among others. The first lawsuit was filed on February 5th in state court in Illinois, by one plaintiff on behalf of himself and… Read More
