In 2021, California resident Guillermo Mata sued Digital Recognition Network (“DRN”), a Texas-based, privately owned, automatic license plate recognition and data analytics software provider. The complaint alleges DRN violated California’s Automated License Plate Recognition (“ALPR”) statute. The Statute regulates the use of automatic license plate readers. The class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of… Read More

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

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

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

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