Category: Kadrey v. Meta

Boies attorneys allege “damning” documents of Meta related to illegal torrenting

We will soon find out if Judge Chhabria rules that the crime-fraud exception applies to attorney-client communications between Meta and Meta’s counsel regarding the downloading of the controversial LibGen dataset using torrenting. The David Boies law firm, representing the Kadrey book authors, alleges that they just received additional documents from the tranche of 18,000 documents…
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Meta updates Judge Chhabria on missed 18,000 documents. Has Meta quelled the fire?

Likely working round the clock, Meta’s outside attorneys have quickly reviewed and produced most of the responsive documents to the plaintiffs Kadrey book authors from the tranche of 18,000 missed documents that its e-discovery vendor Lighthouse “sequestered” from review. In its prior letter, Meta explained that most of the 18,000 documents were non-responsive or duplicates…
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Kadrey plaintiffs oppose Meta’s motion to dismiss

The Kadrey book author plaintiffs filed their opposition to Meta’s Third Amended Consolidated Complaint. Here’s their argument:
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Judge Chhabria issues order in Kadrey v. Meta: Meta’s discovery lapse to be discussed at motion to dismiss hearing on Feb. 27

In a short oral order, Judge Chhabria instructed: “The parties should be prepared to discuss Meta’s inadvertent document sequestration at the February 27 hearing on Meta’s motion to dismiss.” At least for the time being, this short order seems a victory for Meta. The plaintiffs were seeking a lot more: “(1) order Meta to produce…
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Meta outside lawyers update Judge Chhabria on 18,000 Meta documents belatedly discovered

Meta’s outside attorneys just filed a letter to update Judge Chhabria about the contents of the 18,000 Meta documents that had been inadvertently sequestered by Lighthouse, its e-discovery vendor. Here’s what the attorneys say: ● Approximately 3,200 of these documents were previously produced to Plaintiffs. Therefore, they need no further review or processing, as they…
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Meta, Mark Zuckerberg’s day of reckoning: Kadrey, represented by Boies law firm, blasts Meta for falsities & discovery abuses. Will court lay the hammer down on Meta?

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg’s day of reckoning will likely be this week. That’s when Judge Chhabria is expected to decide not only (1) whether the crime-fraud exception applies to 63 Meta documents warranting the loss of confidentiality in Meta’s attorney-client communications, but also (2) what to do about Meta’s admission on late Friday that it…
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Meta, Mark Zuckerberg face moment of truth in AI copyright suit: Do Meta documents show evidence of criminal copyright infringement in which Meta attorneys played a role?

Meta’s outside attorneys submitted to Judge Chhabria 63 documents for his in-camera review. Earlier this week, Judge Chhabria ruled that the Kadrey plaintiffs made a prima facie showing that Meta attorneys may have played a role in possible criminal copyright infringement under Section 506(a)(1) of the Copyright Act. The Judge ordered Meta to submit to…
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From bad to worse: Meta belatedly finds 18,000 Meta documents missed in its discovery review. Oh boy.

Oh boy. Meta just found 18,000 Meta documents that it hasn’t reviewed yet in response to the Kadrey plaintiffs’ discovery requests. Meta blames its “e-discovery vendor” that apparently conducted its review. Meta discovered this gaping lapse in its vendor’s e-discovery review in the course of preparing the attorney-client communications it must submit to Judge Chhabria…
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Evidence of Meta’s use of LibGen dataset and seeding torrents to share files. Wanted to compete with OpenAI and Mistral.

We are compiling some of the publicly released exhibits by the Kadrey plaintiffs (to PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM NON-DISPOSITIVE PRETRIAL ORDER OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE, see DI 417). Email: Request for decision: LibGen Escalation OneLLM [Exhibit B to Pritt Declaration] First up is this email regarding the decision to use LibGen and why. Sony Theakanath…
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Meta moves to dismiss Kadrey book authors’ Third Amended Complaint’s claims under DMCA and California computer fraud act

Meta just filed its motion to dismiss the DMCA CMI removal claim and the claim under California a Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (“CDAFA”), California Penal Code § 502(c)(2).
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