Judge Stein granted OpenAI’s request for oral argument for its appeal of Magistrate Judge Wang’s controversial ruling that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege related to its deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. Oral argument is set for January 16, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
The order for oral argument also includes “OpenAI’ s objections (Dkt. Nos. 638 and 925) to Magistrate Judge Wang’s September 19, 2025 Opinion and Order regarding the ChatExplorer logs (Dkt. No. 604).”
The prominent Supreme Court litigator Lisa Blatt represents OpenAI.
Should be good.
ORDER: The Court shall hear oral argument on OpenAI’ s objections (Dkt. Nos. 638 and 925) to Magistrate Judge Wang’s September 19, 2025 Opinion and Order regarding the ChatExplorer logs (Dkt. No. 604) and to Judge Wang’s November 24, 2025 Opinion and Order regarding attorney-client privilege and the deletion of the Books1 and Books2 datasets (Dkt. No. 846) in Courtroom 23A of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse on January 16, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. SO ORDERED. (Oral Argument set for 1/16/2026 at 02:00 PM in Courtroom 23A, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007 before Judge Sidney H. Stein.)
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