(Subscription required) A Paris business court has ordered France’s main internet service providers to block access to a website accused of using artificial intelligence to massively plagiarize the content of daily newspaper Libération and dozens of other publishers. The case involving News.Dayfr.com—the third prominent French case involving the media, publishers and AI in as many months—highlights the growing need for clear rules around artificial intelligence.

(Subscription required) Alarm bells rang for the special master in the case, he said, when he used Westlaw to verify details in the briefing—only to discover, he said, that some of the quotations and court decisions cited by plaintiff's counsel, which appeared to "strongly support their position on the privilege issue," did not exist at all.

Groups trying to bring water back to the dry Kern River bed through Bakersfield have petitioned the California Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that knocked down an order that had kept flows going for a few months last year.

A coalition of 20 state Democratic attorneys general filed two federal lawsuits on Tuesday, claiming that the Trump administration is threatening to withhold billions of dollars in transportation and disaster-relief funds unless states agree to certain immigration enforcement actions.