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A joint ruling in consolidated cases arising from a tender for the maintenance of provincial roads in the Małopolska region (lot no. 7).

An order dismissing an interlocutory appeal against the refusal to stay enforcement of a VAT decision (first instance: Provincial Administrative Court in Łódź, I SA/Łd 50/26).

Two cases were joined for hearing under the Hamid jurisdiction, the court's own inherent power to enforce practitioners' duties to the court.

Authors sued the AI model developer over the use of their books to train it; the dispute ended in a class-action settlement approved as final on 20 July 2026, so no precedent on the merits was established.

The claimant generated an image using Stable Diffusion by entering positive and negative prompts and setting the number of generation steps, dimensions, guidance scale, and random seed, repeatedly adjusted the parameters, then selected and published one of the resulting versions.

The Austrian public employment service implemented a model that calculated the probability of returning to the labour market and assigned unemployed persons to one of three prospect segments (the system known in the media as the "AMS algorithm").

In 2022, the UK supervisory authority imposed a £7.5 million fine and an accompanying order on the company, alleging that it scraped photographs of UK residents from the open internet and social media to feed a worldwide facial-recognition database made available to clients outside the country; the Upper Tribunal later held the first-tier tribunal's no-jurisdiction ruling to be a material error of law and remitted the case for reconsideration on the merits, so as of this entry neither the fine nor the order has been reinstated.

The case concerned access to health benefits for a child on the autism spectrum.

After the authority requested information, the companies responded that they did not operate in Italy and were not subject to European law.

The authority concluded its proceedings concerning ChatGPT by imposing a EUR 15 million fine and ordering a six-month public-awareness campaign in the Italian media; this decision was later annulled by the Rome Tribunal (18 March 2026) for lack of jurisdiction of the Italian authority, without the substantive complaints being decided.

Proceedings against the American company providing the chatbot, against which the authority had already imposed a prior limitation on processing.

A case concerning six musical works, including "Atemlos durch die Nacht," "Forever Young," and the "Mambo No. 5" refrain, against a US-based music-generator provider.

The first trial in Europe concerning the training of an image generator to be decided on the merits after a full hearing.

Ride-hailing platform drivers challenged their deactivation from the app over alleged abuse and the platforms' refusal to explain how rides were assigned and fares set.

A case concerning a penalty for failing to report capital gains tax.

Authors alleged that the company downloaded their books from unauthorised shadow-library collections and used them to train its models; the court's ruling addresses fair use only for the reproduction claim brought by these 13 named plaintiffs and this evidentiary record, not the legality of AI training in general, and other claims in the case remain pending.

A collective-management organisation sued the model provider because its chatbot, on a simple prompt, reproduced the lyrics of nine well-known songs.

The sharpest judicial response to date to fabricated citations.

The first case in which a court sanctioned counsel for citing rulings invented by a language model.

A passenger, buying a ticket after the death of a family member, asked the airline's website chatbot about its bereavement fare.

A photographer alleged that the association LAION had downloaded his photograph from an agency's website and used it to build a dataset of image-caption pairs later used to train generative models.

A consumer organisation sought an injunction to stop the company from using content publicly posted by social-media users to train its models.

A judgment concerning the SyRI system, through which the administration linked tax, insurance, and social-benefit records to flag individuals for investigation of benefit fraud.

The applicant sought registration of an image, stating on the application that it had been generated autonomously by a system he had built, without creative human input, naming the machine as author and himself as the rights holder by virtue of owning the system.

A legal-database publisher sued the developer of a case-law search tool who had used the publisher's editorial headnotes to build his training data.

A customer was refused a mobile-phone contract following an automated assessment of her creditworthiness.

The Court's first ruling on Article 22 GDPR.

A case for judicial review of an appeals tribunal's decision in an immigration matter.

A family-law case concerning a father’s contact with children residing in China.