Category: David Boies

Judge Chhabria consolidates Kadrey, Farnsworth suits v. Meta. David Boies firm lead counsel, Lieff Cabraser as additional counsel.

Judge Chhabria granted the motion to consolidate the two book author lawsuits against Meta Platforms, Kadrey v. Meta and the recently filed Farnsworth v. Meta. David Boies’s firm is appointed interim lead counsel with Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein serving as additional counsel. Somewhat unclear what role the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, which had originally…
Read more: Judge Chhabria consolidates Kadrey, Farnsworth suits v. Meta. David Boies firm lead counsel, Lieff Cabraser as additional counsel.
Judge Hixson grants Kadrey plaintiffs 21 more depositions if 2/3 completed in November and all by Dec. 13. Meta gets 8 more depositions.

Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson gave the Kadrey plaintiffs most, but not all, of the additional depositions they requested. The plaintiffs requested 31 additional depositions, but received 21 by Judge Hixon’s grant. Meta got its 8 additional depositions (but did not prevail on limiting the plaintiffs to 16 total as well). But Judge Hixson made it…
Read more: Judge Hixson grants Kadrey plaintiffs 21 more depositions if 2/3 completed in November and all by Dec. 13. Meta gets 8 more depositions.
David Boies firm asks to be interim lead counsel, with Lieff Cabraser assisting in consolidated cases before Judge Chhabria

The law firms of Boies Schiller Flexner and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP submitted a letter in the Kadrey v. Meta and Farnsworth v. Meta lawsuits asking Judge Chhabria to consolidate the two requested class action lawsuits brought by book authors against Meta Platforms. In their letter, David Boies’s firm states that the two…
Read more: David Boies firm asks to be interim lead counsel, with Lieff Cabraser assisting in consolidated cases before Judge Chhabria
Judge Chhabria to hold Zoom hearing re: plaintiffs’ request to get more discovery time in Kadrey v. Meta

Judge Chhabria will be holding an important hearing over Zoom to consider arguments related to the plaintiffs’ request to get additional discovery time, now that the law firm of David Boies has taken the lead in the plaintiffs’ case. Meta opposes this request. To understand why David Boies and lawyers from his firm were added…
Read more: Judge Chhabria to hold Zoom hearing re: plaintiffs’ request to get more discovery time in Kadrey v. Meta
New AI lawsuit: Christopher Farnsworth v. Meta Platforms. Lawsuits hit 32.

Another proposed class-action copyright lawsuit was filed against Meta Platforms. This time, filed by book author Christopher Farnsworth. The allegations in the complaint are similar to ones already made by other book authors, such as in the lawsuits brought by Richard Kadrey, Michael Chabon, and Mike Huckabee. Those book author lawsuits against Meta have been…
Read more: New AI lawsuit: Christopher Farnsworth v. Meta Platforms. Lawsuits hit 32.
Quoting Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about creators and publishers, David Boies asks Judge Chhabria for more discovery time

David Boies and his team of lawyers from his firm wasted no time in taking the lead for the plaintiffs in the book authors case, Kadrey v. Meta Platforms. Boies joined the plaintiffs’ legal team after Judge Chhabria roundly chastised Joseph Saveri, then the lead plaintiffs’ attorney, for perceived lapses of the team of plaintiffs’…
Read more: Quoting Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about creators and publishers, David Boies asks Judge Chhabria for more discovery time

Category: David Boies

Judge Chhabria consolidates Kadrey, Farnsworth suits v. Meta. David Boies firm lead counsel, Lieff Cabraser as additional counsel.

Judge Hixson grants Kadrey plaintiffs 21 more depositions if 2/3 completed in November and all by Dec. 13. Meta gets 8 more depositions.

David Boies firm asks to be interim lead counsel, with Lieff Cabraser assisting in consolidated cases before Judge Chhabria

Judge Chhabria to hold Zoom hearing re: plaintiffs’ request to get more discovery time in Kadrey v. Meta

New AI lawsuit: Christopher Farnsworth v. Meta Platforms. Lawsuits hit 32.

Quoting Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about creators and publishers, David Boies asks Judge Chhabria for more discovery time