Mike Scarcella

A federal judge in Michigan on Thursday cautioned the U.S. ​Justice Department about the risks associated with generative artificial intelligence after finding that a government filing ‌cited a case that the court could not locate.

A U.S. federal ​judge has granted class action status to lawsuits by consumers and other ‌beef buyers seeking billions of dollars in damages from the nation's largest meatpackers for allegedly conspiring to inflate prices.

Twenty U.S. states including California and New York have urged a federal judge to dismiss the Trump administration's lawsuit seeking to block attorney ​regulatory officials in Washington from disciplining former U.S. Justice Department official Jeffrey ‌Clark, a key Trump ally.

In a win for the Justice Department in protecting the separation of powers between the courts and the president, the D.C. Circuit upheld the dismissal of a defamation suit based on statements Clinton administration officials reportedly made to justify a missile attack against a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan in 1998. The en banc circuit said that "courts are not a forum for reconsidering the wisdom of discretionary decisions made by the political branches in the realm of foreign policy or national security."

A federal judge overseeing the $1.5 billion copyright settlement between ​Anthropic and authors sharply reduced the plaintiffs' legal fee request, rejecting a percentage-based award that she ‌said would produce a "windfall" for the lawyers and divert tens of millions of dollars from class members.

The top federal prosecutor in Seattle who was fired by President Donald Trump last week sued the administration on Tuesday, in ​a case testing the president's authority to remove U.S. attorneys appointed ‌by judges to fill vacancies.

The Alabama State Bar said lawyers using artificial intelligence cannot charge clients for hours saved by the technology but can bill for time they spend reviewing and ​exercising their judgment over AI-generated work, according to new guidance issued this week. ‌The guidelines come as more state courts and attorney regulatory authorities weigh rules and best practices for the emerging technology.

LinkedIn has asked a U.S. judge to block a group of users from questioning five current and former top ​executives, including CEO Daniel Shapero, in a proposed class action alleging ‌the company monopolized professional social networking.

Connecticut's highest state court issued a warning to lawyers that they remain responsible for the accuracy of court filings produced with ​generative AI, using a decision about fabricated case citations to underscore ‌attorneys' ethical obligations .

U.S. President Donald Trump has asked a federal court in Florida to reject requests for legal fees from ​former judges and others who opposed the Republican leader’s now-dismissed $10 ‌billion lawsuit against the IRS, arguing they are not entitled to any recovery.