Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a false-advertising class-action lawsuit accusing the company of overhyping its Apple Intelligence features—specifically a promised AI overhaul of Siri that plaintiffs say never materialized and, according to their lawyers, may not arrive for years.
The lawsuit, filed by Peter Landsheft in U.S. federal court in California in 2024, arose after the iPhone maker announced – and started running advertisements for – a bevy of AI upgrades at its annual software developer conference in 2024, saying they would become available with new iPhones that fall.
The proposed settlement filed in California federal court on Tuesday comes as the iPhone-maker is poised to finally unveil an AI-enhanced Siri at its developer conference in June.
The $250mn sum, if approved by the judge, would be one of the largest legal settlements Apple has reached.
Peter Landsheft, represented by Clarkson Law Firm PC, in March 2025 was the first person to file a proposed class action in the Northern District of California.
Otter.ai is fighting to dismiss a consolidated federal class action that accuses its OtterPilot bot of quietly recording and transcribing millions of Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet conversations without participants’ consent. Privacy lawyers say the Otter.ai lawsuit could redraw the compliance map for every AI meeting assistant sold into the enterprise.
“We are pleased the court reached the right result. The decision protects everyday consumers who trust that the labels on products they buy tell the truth,” Christen Chapman of Clarkson Law Firm PC told Law360 on Friday. “California law has always demanded that honesty from companies, and today’s ruling confirms that companies cannot escape accountability even when their false advertisements are of the most brazen kind.”
“The case law in this area is very old and very complicated and conflicting,” Brent Robinson said. “Courts and lawyers often can get it wrong, but also good lawyers can identify new avenues for challenge and can get it right in a way that makes a lot of impact for their clients.”
In Episode 5, Ryan and Shireen sit down with Glenn Danas, partner at Clarkson, for a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to fight for everyday people from inside the legal system.
An alleged smoking gun could shift dozens of products liability suits against CooperSurgical Inc.—a medical device manufacturer specializing in fertility—for an allegedly defective culture media that caused mass embryo loss for hundreds of thousdands of families.
Fertility company CooperSurgical Inc. is pushing back against a bid to compel the release of internal financial and other records in litigation brought by a couple who claims the company negligently destroyed their embryos with its recalled culture media, calling the request overly broad.
