A federal court in San Francisco has remanded a consumer dispute back to state court, ruling that judicial estoppel prevents Vegas.com from abandoning the equitable jurisdiction defense it successfully deployed in an earlier case to kill...
Nixon v. Vegas.com, LLC
A federal judge in San Francisco denied a motion to transfer a single claim in an equity dispute over an AI startup to Delaware, ruling that splitting the case would create piecemeal litigation, while dismissing the plaintiff’s fraud and...
Gafita v. Nucs AI, Inc. et al
A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco tentatively concluded that the HR tech company engaged in sanctionable discovery misconduct but ordered the parties to negotiate a resolution before imposing penalties.
People Center, Inc. v. Deel, Inc. et al
U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar denied a motion to dismiss charges against David Brooks Pokorny, ruling that a series of emails threatening to skin Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer to death constituted unprotected "true...
USA v. Pokorny
A federal judge ruled that an arbitrator — not the court — must decide whether a class action accusing Figma of misusing intellectual property to train its AI products belongs in court at all.
Khan v. Figma, Inc.
A federal judge ruled that the complaint sufficiently alleged copying linked to the DBRX series of LLMs, allowing the direct copyright infringement claim to proceed past the pleading stage.
In Re Mosaic LLM Litigation
The Supreme Court heard argument in a case that could determine whether nonprofit organizations can challenge government subpoenas for donor information in federal court before a state court orders compliance.
First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Platkin