The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an opinion in the long-running copyright battle between Thomson Reuters and the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence, but the opinion is, at least for now, sealed and not viewable by the public.

The court issued the opinion under seal together with an order stating only as follows:

“The opinion in this matter has been temporarily filed as a sealed document. The parties are hereby directed to provide the Court with proposed redactions from the opinion, together with the reason for each redaction within 10 days of the date of this order. The Court will then determine whether to accept the proposed redactions and will unseal the opinion in an appropriate form. Proposed redactions are to be filed with the Clerk’s office using the SEALED response event in ECF.”

For further background on this case, see my archive of coverage.

Meanwhile, stay tuned for further development.

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