Valenti v. Dfinity USA Research LLC

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California · CA · United States · 2023-05-08 · 21-cv-06118

ExcludedDeepfake defence to genuine evidencevideooffered by plaintiffchallenge: admissibility

FNF sought to file supplemental expert evidence suggesting CryptoLeaks videos of counsel could be deepfakes. The court denied the request in an order removing FNF as lead counsel on class-representation grounds, leaving the authenticity of the videos unresolved and excluding the supplemental AI evidence.

Rules cited: Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 · PSLRA

The court's finding, in its words

The court denied leave to file supplemental expert material asserting that controversial CryptoLeaks videos might be deepfakes.

Verbatim; United States court documents are public domain.

This decision in the coded corpus of US decisions on generative AI →

Decision: damiencharlotin.com
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
Found via: Damien Charlotin deepfakes lead CSV (CC0), User brief named-case list

No alleged media is hosted or linked. Where the court found material genuine or fabricated, the finding is the court's; where a party merely alleged it, this page says so. Publication restrictions were checked on the read date. This record summarises a public court document or official publication and reports what it says; SafeLegalAI makes no findings of its own. Individuals and organisations are named only as they appear in that public record. Anyone named may send a right of reply, correction or contextual update (for example an appeal, vacatur or later disposition) via /report; we add a dated note where appropriate. Reply or correct this record.

compiled by the Cognesio LLP editorial teammethodas of 2026-09-07v0.1.1coding CC BY 4.0JSON Hugging Face GitHub