Judge Tigar dismisses with prejudice a pro se plaintiff’s sweeping claims that her prompts to ChatGPT created trade secrets and copyrights that OpenAI then commercialized in its Study Together, Deep Research Agent, and ChatGPT Agent features, holding that none of the claims plausibly states a basis
Judge Gilliam denies a pro se TRO that would have blocked a January 6, 2026 sheriff’s sale of plaintiffs’ Pennsylvania home, holding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine likely strips the court of jurisdiction to invalidate the underlying state-court foreclosure judgment, and warning the litigants — who
Magistrate Judge Tse denies plaintiff Anthony McGee’s motions to seal “all juvenile court records,” for default judgment after the case was already dismissed on the merits, and for Rule 60 relief from judgment, while also denying defendants’ request for a vexatious-litigant pre-filing order on proce
Judge Martínez-Olguín denies a Tesla worker’s motion to revisit an order compelling arbitration of his harassment claims, holding that an old administrative right-to-sue notice was not “newly discovered evidence” and that recent out-of-circuit decisions on the federal sexual-harassment arbitration c
Magistrate Judge Spero grants HealthRIGHT 360 judgment on the pleadings on the survivor claim brought by the daughter of a man who fatally overdosed in its San Francisco sober-living program, holding that California law forbids dressing up a wrongful-death claim as a survivor cause of action.
Judge Martínez-Olguín refuses to send a Song-Beverly lemon-law case back to Alameda County Superior Court, holding that Jaguar Land Rover’s 30-day removal clock did not start until it obtained the underlying sales contract showing the amount in controversy.
Judge Pitts denies in large part Santa Clara County’s motion to dismiss a hospital sterile-processing educator’s First Amendment and California whistleblower claims, but trims away time-barred individual defendants and a stale FEHA retaliation theory.
Judge Pitts dismisses all twenty causes of action brought by a Marina dentist-turned-landlord who claimed the city escalated property-code enforcement against him after he filed Public Records Act requests, finding pleading deficiencies on Monell, First Amendment, equal protection, takings, excessiv