Judge Sidney Stein, presiding as the MultiDistrict Litigation court, has stayed all deadlines in the 12 transferred copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft. He has set May 22, 10 AM ET, for the Initial Case Management Conference.
To prepare for the conference, he has asked the parties for a single report addressing the appointment of leadership counsel and other issues. (Here’s a good primer on leadership counsel selection from Stanford Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession.
