The docket is doing what dockets do. Seven Edelson wrongful-death complaints consolidated in the Northern District of California, no scheduling order yet posted to the public web, and $1 billion in damages flagged in CTV's reporting from Edelson's own briefing call. [1] PACER access is required for the next step, which is the part the wire copy will not give you. The case is real; the calendar is not yet.

What sits around the calendar is more interesting. On Wednesday, Privy Council Office spokesperson Pierre-Alain Bujold told reporters in Ottawa that the federal government is waiting for OpenAI's own information on the Tumbler Ridge incident before drafting AI-safety regulation. [2] Industry Minister Evan Solomon's office repeated the line. The defendant is, in effect, the witness Canada is asking for the policy.

That is the gap the paper named yesterday when the pleading surfaced the twelve-engineer safety team that was overruled. The CBC's analysis of the filing also flagged the jurisdictional difficulty for Canadian plaintiffs whose damages were suffered at home and whose defendant lives in San Francisco — the case is in California precisely because that is where the conduct lives. [3] The docket is a clock running on two governments at once, and only one of them has subpoena power.

-- THEO KAPLAN, San Francisco