Families of Polytechnique and Portapique Victims Sue OpenAI and Sam Altman in U.S. Federal Court

Families of victims from two mass casualty events in Canada filed suit in the United States against OpenAI and Sam Altman. The plaintiffs and defendants are in different countries. The defendant organization changed its legal structure while being sued. Nobody knows which version of the defendant is actually being sued.

Jurisdictional shopping is standard. Corporate restructuring mid-lawsuit is also standard. Stacking both together is efficient. The plaintiffs will have to file motions about where the case belongs and who they are actually suing. These motions will take time. Time is the point.

The case will move through the system slowly, or it will be dismissed for jurisdictional reasons, or the defendant will have transformed into something that cannot be sued in the same way. All three outcomes are already baked into the filing. The form was submitted. The form was always going to be processed slowly.