Individual Action
Battle v. Microsoft
Jeffery Battle and Battle Enterprises, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation
Where it stands
Plaintiff, an Air Force veteran and aviation consultant, alleged Bing's AI-generated biographical summary conflated him with a different man of a similar name who had been convicted of seditious conspiracy. On October 23, 2024, Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby granted Microsoft's motion to compel arbitration and stayed the litigation, so the merits will be resolved privately. The court issued no ruling on Section 230 or the First Amendment, meaning the case produced no public precedent on AI defamation liability.
Key ruling
October 23, 2024 (D. Md., Griggsby, J.): motion to compel arbitration granted and case stayed, diverting the first Bing AI defamation claim out of public court.
Note on this record
Status is 'compelled to arbitration and stayed' rather than a merits dismissal; 'Dismissed' is the closest available status value. Plaintiff's counsel not identified in available sources.The record
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- Case number
- 1:23-cv-01822
- Filed
- 2023-07-07
- Defendants
- Microsoft Corporation
- Plaintiffs
- Individual businessman and his company suing over AI-generated search summaries
- Technology at issue
- Microsoft Bing / Bing Chat
- Relief sought
- Monetary damages and injunctive relief requiring removal of the false information from search results
Claims pleaded
Sources (3)
- Battle v. Microsoft — case explainerKnowing Machines (Knowing Legal Machines) · 2024
- Microsoft Faces Defamation Lawsuit in Maryland — AI Law and Regulation TrackerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP · 2023
- Battle v. Microsoft Corporation, 1:23-cv-01822 — docketCourtListener · 2024
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