Courts on AI / monthly digest
What courts said about AI in February 2025
2 court-authored documents filed this month that substantively discuss generative AI. The court's own use of AI 1 · Substantive AI law courts cite 1.
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Hugging Face- Ross v. United States
· District of Columbia Court of Appeals · The court's own use of AI · court used AI
On 2025-02-20, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals reverses an animal-cruelty conviction for insufficient proof. The majority and dissent both discuss ChatGPT responses: the majority questions its value as a proxy for common knowledge, while the dissent uses it as a limited check in nonprecedential reasoning.
- Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. ROSS Intelligence Inc.
· U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware · Substantive AI law courts cite
The District of Delaware treats ROSS’s use of Westlaw headnotes as nontransformative AI training for a competing legal-research tool. The opinion grants partial summary judgment for Thomson Reuters and becomes a central legal-AI copyright ruling on appeal.