Delaware Judge Lets Robby Starbuck Defamation Suit Against Google Move Forward
Judge Meghan Adams of Delaware Superior Court on Friday, July 24, 2026, denied Google's motion to dismiss Robby Starbuck's defamation lawsuit, allowing the case to proceed.[1]
Adams rejected Google's bid to end the case at the pleading stage rather than sending it forward for further litigation.[1]
Starbuck filed the lawsuit in October 2025 seeking at least $15 million.[1] The complaint says Google's Bard, Gemini and Gemma AI systems generated false statements about Starbuck, and that Gemini reported those statements were shown to 2,843,917 unique users and that Google kept showing them despite cease-and-desist letters.[1]
The ruling keeps Starbuck's claims alive past an early legal hurdle and clears the way for the parties to press discovery and further litigation over alleged AI-generated defamation.
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- On Friday, July 24, 2026, Judge Meghan Adams of Delaware Superior Court denied Google’s bid to end Robby Starbuck’s defamation case at the pleading stage.
- Starbuck filed the lawsuit in October 2025 seeking at least $15 million over alleged defamatory statements generated by Google’s Bard, Gemini and Gemma AI systems.
- The complaint says Gemini itself reported that false statements about Starbuck were shown to 2,843,917 unique users and that Google continued showing them despite cease-and-desist letters.
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