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Motion to dismiss denied, discovery running, trial expected late 2026 or early 2027 — What authors should do now
A right to payment from a class action settlement is a property right that can generally be sold. The Bartz v. Anthropic case is no exception.
Courts are ordering compensation at a scale that would have been hard to imagine a decade ago. A single Supreme Court decision, Learning Resources v. Trump, unlocked roughly $166 billion in tariff refunds owed to U.S. importers. Crypto exchange bankruptcies are returning tens of billions of dollars to customers. Class actions against payment networks, sports leagues and AI developers are settling in the billions.
On August 18, one day before the appeal window closed, Edelson PC and Oppenheim + Zebrak — the settlement's "Publishers' Coordination Counsel" — filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit, objecting to the settlement
The schedule as approved — and how the August 18 notice of appeal changes it. Administrator milestones, installment dates into 2027, and what is now uncertain.
On June 12, 2026, Sleep Number Corporation and its subsidiaries filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Nine plaintiff organizations now have active suits against Perplexity AI as of May 31; OpenAI's Frontier Governance Framework sets the EU AI Act compliance baseline for all frontier labs; Bartz v. Anthropic final approval order still pending with June 11 distribution-calculation date at risk.