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Category: Cognella v. Meta

Kadrey v. Meta parties submit case statement for remaining claims

The Kadrey v. Meta set of cases (see below) continues to hum along. The parties filed their joint case management statement ahead of the hearing before Judge Chhabria on July 1, 2026. There will likely be additional discovery, as discussed in the statement, but the schedule set for the Entrepreneur Media case remains unchanged and…
Read more: Kadrey v. Meta parties submit case statement for remaining claims
Judge Chhabria sets same schedule as Enterpreneur Media v. Meta suit for Cambronne, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Cognella

Initial case management conference held and recorded by Zoom videoconference on May 22, 2026. This action is referred to Magistrate Judge Hixson for discovery. The parties agreed and the Court approved that this action should have the same schedule as Entrepreneur Media, LLC (25-cv-9579). A further case management conference is set for August 7, 2026…
Read more: Judge Chhabria sets same schedule as Enterpreneur Media v. Meta suit for Cambronne, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Cognella
Anthropic loses bid to relate Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella suits to Bartz v. Anthropic

Judge Martinez-Olguin rejected Anthropic’s request to have the recently filed lawsuits by book authors and publishers (some of whom opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic class settlement) treated as related cases to Bartz. This means those cases will be assigned different judge(s). Judge Pitts already has the Cambronne v. Anthropic case, and he is…
Read more: Anthropic loses bid to relate Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella suits to Bartz v. Anthropic
Recently filed lawsuits by Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella v. Meta, all filed by same law firm, now related to Kadrey v. Meta

Judge Chhabria just granted pending motions to relate, to Kadrey v. Meta, the following cases: Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella Inc. v. Meta, all filed by the same law firms of Stris & Maher and Freedman Norman Friedland LLP. The latter 3 cases all involve book authors and…
Read more: Recently filed lawsuits by Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella v. Meta, all filed by same law firm, now related to Kadrey v. Meta
Cognella publisher, represented by same firm representing author John Carreyrou, sues Meta and Anthropic. But separately, not in omnibus suit. Total hits 104.

Cognella, Inc., an academic publisher, just sued both Anthropic and Meta for alleged copyright infringement in training their AI models. Cognella is represented by the same law firms representing the plaintiffs in Carreyrou v. Anthropic and ChickenSoup for the Soul v. Meta. But this time, Stris & Maher and Freedman Normand Friedland LLP have decided…
Read more: Cognella publisher, represented by same firm representing author John Carreyrou, sues Meta and Anthropic. But separately, not in omnibus suit. Total hits 104.

Category: Cognella v. Meta

Kadrey v. Meta parties submit case statement for remaining claims

Judge Chhabria sets same schedule as Enterpreneur Media v. Meta suit for Cambronne, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Cognella

Anthropic loses bid to relate Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella suits to Bartz v. Anthropic

Recently filed lawsuits by Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella v. Meta, all filed by same law firm, now related to Kadrey v. Meta

Cognella publisher, represented by same firm representing author John Carreyrou, sues Meta and Anthropic. But separately, not in omnibus suit. Total hits 104.