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Magistrate Judge Wang orders John Vincent “Vinnie” Monaco to sit for 3.5 hours more of deposition after being unprepared for the first
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang orders John Vincent “Vinnie” Monaco to sit for 3.5 hours more of deposition after being unprepared for the firstMagistrate Judge Wang ordered OpenAI employee John Vincent “Vinnie” Monaco to sit for 3.5 hours more of a Rule 30(b)(6) as the corporate representative to answer questions about OpenAI’s Project Giraffe. Project Giraffe reportedly relates to OpenAI’s efforts to erect guardrails for its models to avoid regurgitations. DOWNLOAD THE ORDER
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Court orders OpenAI to turn over Greg Brockman’s journal to Plaintiffs in MDL copyright suit. Plus, OAI employee Vinnie Monaco was unprepared for deposition re Project Giraffe guardrails
Read more: Court orders OpenAI to turn over Greg Brockman’s journal to Plaintiffs in MDL copyright suit. Plus, OAI employee Vinnie Monaco was unprepared for deposition re Project Giraffe guardrailsMagistrate Judge Wang just issued an important ruling on discovery disputes: Brockman’s journal came to light in the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman fraud lawsuit: Magistrate Judge Wang’s order:
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Magistrate Judge Ona Wang is reassigned discovery issues from Magistrate Judge Netburn in Advance Local Media v. Cohere
Read more: Magistrate Judge Ona Wang is reassigned discovery issues from Magistrate Judge Netburn in Advance Local Media v. CohereMagistrate Judge Ona Wang, who is assigned to the OpenAI MDL Litigation, has now also been assigned to Advance Local Media v. Cohere. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn had been originally assigned the latter case.
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Magistrate Judge Wang gives OpenAI until midnight tonight to object to Plaintiffs’ request for Ilya Sutskever memos and all depositions from Musk v. Altman suit
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang gives OpenAI until midnight tonight to object to Plaintiffs’ request for Ilya Sutskever memos and all depositions from Musk v. Altman suitMagistrate Judge Wang just gave OpenAI until midnight tonight to file any objection to the Plaintiffs’ request for 2 memos written by Ilya Sutskever and all deposition transcripts from the Musk v. Altman lawsuit (which itself is headed to trial) in April). ORDER re: (1178 in 1:25-md-03143-SHS-OTW) Letter, filed by The New York Times Company.…
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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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Judge Stein upholds disovery of 20M ChatGPT chat logs of users
Read more: Judge Stein upholds disovery of 20M ChatGPT chat logs of usersJudge Stein upheld Magistrate Judge Wang’s order that OpenAI must produce 20 million ChatGPT chat logs to the plaintiffs in the MDL litigation. OpenAI’s pending Rule 72(a) objection to Magistrate Judge Wang’s decision finding that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege related to deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets remains before Judge Stein. OpenAI, represented by…
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Plaintiffs oppose OpenAI’s objection re: production of 20 million ChatGPT logs
Read more: Plaintiffs oppose OpenAI’s objection re: production of 20 million ChatGPT logsOpenAI filed its Rule 72(a) objection to Magistrate Judge Wang’s order requiring it to produce 20 million ChatGPT logs by users (“de-identified”). Now the Class Plaintiffs and the News Plaintiffs have filed their oppositions. DOWNLOAD CLASS PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION DOWNLOAD NEWS PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION
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OpenAI files updated brief to appeal Magistrate Judge’s decision re: 20M ChatGPT chats
Read more: OpenAI files updated brief to appeal Magistrate Judge’s decision re: 20M ChatGPT chatsOpenAI has filed an updated brief in support of its Rule 72(a) objection of Magistrate Judge Wang’s order requiring it to produce to plaintiffs 20 million chat logs for users of ChatGPT. This objection is being handled by OpenAI’s longstanding lawyers from Latham, MoFo, and Keker — not Lisa Blatt and the newly hired law…
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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…