Civil Litigation
Apr. 1, 2026
Reddit data scraping suit against Anthropic back to state court
A federal judge ruled Reddit's claims against Anthropic involve contractual and business violations beyond copyright law, sending the data scraping lawsuit back to state court for further proceedings.
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered a lawsuit between Reddit and artificial intelligence company Anthropic to return to state court, rejecting Anthropic's argument that claims are limited to copyright law.
In an order Monday, U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson ruled that Reddit's claims over alleged data scraping and AI training practices do not fall under federal copyright law, clearing the way for the case to return to San Francisco Superior Court where the ...
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