The New York Times (September, 4 2026)- The survivors contend that the company should have notified the police when it shut down the shooterʼs disturbing ChatGPT account eight months before the February attack in British Columbia. Survivors of a mass shooting in British Columbia filed 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI this week, contending that the … Continued
The Guardian (September 3, 2026)– OpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits filed on behalf of victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. The suits, filed on Wednesday, allege the company’s ChatGPT chatbot induced the shooter to carry out the attack in rural Canada in February, in which eight people were killed and dozens more wounded – most … Continued
Edelson PC Partner Natasha J. Fernández-Silber has been appointed Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel by U.S. District Judge David J. Novak in commercial real estate brokers’ multidistrict litigation against CoStar Group, Inc., which operates the popular CoStar and LoopNet platforms. The Case Commercial real estate brokers alleged in their complaint that CoStar uses exclusionary conduct to monopolize … Continued
The New York Times (August, 26 2026)- Meta has agreed to pay up to $17 billion over ten years and to overhaul how Instagram and Facebook treat minors, resolving claims by nearly every state and territory that the company built its platforms to addict children and then told the public they were safe. It was … Continued
Lawdragon (January 7, 2026)–OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, was the first company to bring a generative AI chatbot to the market. The impact of this form of artificial intelligence is only starting to be understood on a broad scale. In late April of last year, it rolled back an update that made the large language … Continued
Bloomberg Law (September 25, 2025)– A California federal judge granted preliminary approval of Anthropic PBC’s $1.5 billion settlement to resolve authors’ copyright class action over the AI company’s downloading of millions of pirated books. Judge William Alsup said the settlement is “fair” and acknowledged potential complications with the claims process given the number of stakeholders. … Continued
Reuters (September 25, 2025)- A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors’ representatives. The proposed deal marks the first settlement in a string of lawsuits against tech companies … Continued
Los Angeles Times (September 8, 2025) — Despite a court loss and sanctioning by state regulators, California’s home insurer of last resort continues to deny smoke damage claims from the January wildfires — even when toxic substances have been found in homes, according to a Times review of denial letters. The California FAIR Plan Assn. … Continued
Law360 (May 21, 2025) — An Oregon jury held Wednesday that PacifiCorp must pay roughly $50 million to 10 victims of the state’s 2020 Labor Day wildfires, bringing the total damages verdicts in the class action against the Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility to $385 million as more bellwether trials are expected to play out throughout 2025. … Continued
Above The Law (April 17, 2025)– Stanford just announced that their 2L On-Campus Interviewing (OCI) is scheduled from May 5 to 9. That’s not a typo. That means that OCI—the key moment in top law students’ paths where they secure that 2L summer job that leads to an offer after graduation—is happening before students have started their … Continued
