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Plain-language summaries of recent court decisions and opinions worth knowing about.
The Federal Circuit reversed the MSPB’s dismissal and held that a VA fellow’s disclosures about flawed claims-processing AI plausibly alleged gross mismanagement, establishing whistleblower jurisdiction.
A federal court dismissed antitrust claims against Google alleging coercive content-use practices without an alleged agreement.
The Third Circuit ruled that Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and that ROSS Intelligence’s use of those headnotes to train an AI legal platform was not fair use.
The Ninth Circuit held that GitHub’s AI coding tools do not violate the DMCA by reproducing code without attribution because they create new works rather than removing copyright information from existing copies.
The Delaware Court of Chancery found that Dr. Minnie Sarwal breached fiduciary duties by concealing material changes to NephroSant’s AI-driven kidney diagnostic test and destroying company documents.
The D.C. Circuit upheld the Department of War’s decision to exclude Anthropic’s AI product from its supply chain over national security and usage restriction disagreements.
The Court of Federal Claims upheld the Navy’s exclusion of Blue Water Autonomy and Saildrone from a prototype unmanned vessel competition after finding the Navy reasonably applied evaluation criteria regarding vessel design and test asset representativeness.
The Alabama Supreme Court dismissed an appeal in a construction contract dispute, finding improper certification of a partial final judgment under Rule 54(b).
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