Big news: Judge P. Casey Pitts was reassigned Carreyrou v. Anthropic, the omnibus copyright lawsuit filed by book author John Carreyrou and other book authors who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement. (Judge Trina Thompson, originally assigned the case, recused herself.)
Judge Pitts sits in San Jose. He was appointed to the bench by President Biden in 2023. He is a double Yale graduate, both undergrad and law school.
This is his first AI copyright lawsuit. He will soon have to decide whether to sever the lawsuits against the various AI companies, including Google, Meta, xAI, Perplexity AI, and Anthropic. The suit against OpenAI has already been severed and transferred to the MDL Litigation.
