Industry Litigation Tracker2026-07-20AI layoffs, Apple antitrust talks, and pharma price fights: Litigation Tracker - Week of July 13This week's tracker covers six material developments: a Meta AI-assisted layoff ruling, Apple DOJ settlement talks, Google's EU AdSense appeal, a $229 million Kioxia patent verdict, and pharma pricing settlements involving Caremark and Glenmark.
Industry Litigation Tracker2026-07-13Apple v. OpenAI, Google Gemini, Amazon, and AstraZeneca: Litigation Tracker — Week of July 13This week's tracker covers six material litigation signals across AI, tech platforms, workplace benefits, and pharma: Apple's new trade-secret suit against OpenAI, publisher sanctions claims against OpenAI, Google's Gemini privacy dismissal, Amazon's social-casino settlement, AT&T's pension settlement, and AstraZeneca's Federal Circuit patent win over Pfizer.
Industry Litigation Tracker2026-07-06OpenAI, Shopify, Amgen, and Definium: Litigation Tracker — Week of July 6This week's tracker covers four material litigation signals across AI, tech software, and pharma: a new ChatGPT mental-health product-liability suit, Shopify's software-copying settlement, a preliminary injunction against Colorado's Enbrel price cap, and Definium's Delaware trade-secret dismissal.
Industry Litigation Tracker2026-06-29OpenAI Records, YouTube Addiction Claims, Pfizer, and J&J: Litigation Tracker — Week of June 29This week's tracker covers six litigation signals across AI, tech, and pharma: a new publisher copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, a court order allowing a warrant for ChatGPT records, YouTube's social-media addiction settlement, New York's hate-speech reporting law, Pfizer's generic-drug antitrust dismissal, and the FTC's Stelara amicus against J&J.
Industry Litigation Tracker2026-06-22Workday, OpenAI, TikTok, and Aurobindo: Litigation Tracker — Week of June 22This week's tracker covers six material matters across AI, platform regulation, and pharma antitrust: Workday's AI-hiring liability fight, xAI's failed trade-secret case against OpenAI, a legal-AI patent suit, Florida's TikTok enforcement action, Ohio's social-media law revival, and the FTC's Aurobindo/Lannett divestiture remedy.
Industry Litigation Tracker2026-06-1542 States Probe OpenAI, Munich Court Holds Google Liable, and xAI Faces Safety Retaliation Suit: Litigation Tracker — Week of June 15Five cases this week: a 42-state AG coalition served OpenAI with a sweeping subpoena four days after its IPO filing, targeting model sycophancy and child safety; a Canadian mother sued OpenAI in San Francisco over her daughter's ChatGPT-linked suicide; a former xAI engineer claimed wrongful termination for raising Grok safety concerns; Munich's Regional Court ruled Google directly liable for false AI Overview claims (Google appealing); and Heartflow sued rival AI cardiac startup Cleerly in East Texas for patent infringement and trade-secret misappropriation.
Industry Litigation Tracker2026-06-08Florida Sues OpenAI, Supreme Court Rules Twice, and Amazon's Ring Faces Biometric Suit: Litigation Tracker — Week of June 8Six cases across AI, tech, and pharma this week: Florida's AG filed the first state-level AI product-liability suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman personally; a Nashville shooting survivor sued AI gun-detection firm Omnilert; a class action targeted Amazon Ring's facial-recognition feature; the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 to uphold FCC location-data fines against AT&T and Verizon; Elon Musk petitioned to dissolve X's FTC consent decree; and the Supreme Court unanimously blocked a skinny-label generic-drug patent suit in Hikma v. Amarin.
Industry Litigation Tracker2026-06-01CNN Sues Perplexity, Google Engineer Charged, and Takeda Faces $2.6B Risk: Litigation Tracker — Week of June 2Five cases this week: CNN sued Perplexity AI over 17,000 scraped stories (SDNY); the DOJ charged a Google engineer with insider trading via Polymarket prediction-market bets; federal judges moved toward a nationwide rule requiring AI-citation certification in court filings; ABC filed a First Amendment challenge to the FCC's accelerated license-review process; and a Boston jury handed Takeda an $885M pharma pay-for-delay verdict — treble damages could push total liability to $2.65B.
Industry Litigation Tracker2026-05-28Musk Loses, Anthropic Stalls, Tesla Faces Trial: Litigation Tracker — Week of May 26Four major cases across AI and tech this week: a jury ruled Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI; Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement hit a judicial roadblock; a California court denied Tesla's bid to kill a sweeping racial discrimination case; and Texas filed a novel encryption-fraud claim against Meta.
