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OpenAI, represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt, seeks to stop string of discovery losses and stave off loss of attorney-client privilege. Oral argument on Friday, Jan. 16 is the most important one OpenAI has faced.
Read more: OpenAI, represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt, seeks to stop string of discovery losses and stave off loss of attorney-client privilege. Oral argument on Friday, Jan. 16 is the most important one OpenAI has faced.The oral argument in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation tomorrow, Friday, Jan.16, 2026 at 02:00 PM in Courtroom 23A, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007 before Judge Sidney H. Stein, is the most important one OpenAI has faced in all the copyright lawsuits against it. At issue is OpenAI’s appeal of Magistrate Judge…
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Judge Stein grants OpenAI’s request for oral argument in appeal of Magistrate Judge ruling that OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege. OpenAI represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt.
Read more: Judge Stein grants OpenAI’s request for oral argument in appeal of Magistrate Judge ruling that OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege. OpenAI represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt.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.…
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Lisa Blatt asks Judge Stein for leave to file reply to Book Authors’ opposition to challenge to Magistrate Judge’s ruling on waiver of attorney-client privilege
Read more: Lisa Blatt asks Judge Stein for leave to file reply to Book Authors’ opposition to challenge to Magistrate Judge’s ruling on waiver of attorney-client privilegeLisa Blatt of Williams & Connolly, now representing OpenAI, asked Judge Stein for leave to file a reply to the Book Authors’ Class Plaintiffs’ opposition to OpenAI’s objection to Magistrate Judge Wang’s ruling that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege. Given the importance of the attorney-client privilege, I expect Judge Stein to grant OpenAI’s reply request.…
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OpenAI enlists Lisa Blatt to handle appeal to Judge Stein of major discovery ruling by Magistrate Judge Wang
Read more: OpenAI enlists Lisa Blatt to handle appeal to Judge Stein of major discovery ruling by Magistrate Judge WangOpenAI enlisted Lisa Blatt of Williams & Connolly, the prominent Supreme Court litigator, to handle the appeal to Judge Stein of the controversial discovery decision by Magistrate Judge Wang finding OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege. Blatt “has argued 55 cases before the United States Supreme Court and has an 81% win rate in cases decided,” including successfully the…
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Deletion Is Not Infringement
Read more: Deletion Is Not InfringementThis is an excerpt from my earlier analysis of Magistrate Judge Wang’s decision holding that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege in part because willful infringement has been alleged, thereby putting OpenAI’s state of mind “at issue.” For all of my analysis, see Related Stories below. Deletion Is Not Infringement And, even if OpenAI employees relied…
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Magistrate Judge’s opinion finding OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege ignores Supreme Court, 2d Circuit precedent
Read more: Magistrate Judge’s opinion finding OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege ignores Supreme Court, 2d Circuit precedentThis article is the third in a series reviewing Magistrate Judge Wang’s controversial opinion finding that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege regarding the reasons OpenAI deleted Books 1, 2 datasets in 2022. For the first 2 reviews, click below. Today’s article will look more closely at the key Supreme Court precedents and Second Circuit precedents…
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More on why Magistrate Judge’s opinion that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege looks wrong
Read more: More on why Magistrate Judge’s opinion that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege looks wrongMagistrate Judge Wang issued a controversial 28-page opinion concluding that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege for communications of in-house attorneys in 2022 related to OpenAI’s deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. Judge Wang did so on 2 grounds: (1) OpenAI putatively disclosed a “privileged reason” for the deletion based on “non-use” and (2) OpenAI put…
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Is Magistrate Judge’s decision on OpenAI’s waiver of attorney-client privilege due to willfulness of civil infringment but no waiver on criminal infringement contradictory?
Read more: Is Magistrate Judge’s decision on OpenAI’s waiver of attorney-client privilege due to willfulness of civil infringment but no waiver on criminal infringement contradictory?One of the biggest issues that has arisen in the copyright litigation against OpenAI is whether OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege as to communications in-house OpenAI lawyers made regarding the deletion of Books1 and Books2 datasets in mid-2022 after OpenAI torrented them in 2018 and then used them to train an earlier AI model(s) of…