2026-10-01 first judicial answer is no — Mehta took Google's side
in the pair. Reasoning not yet in the reporting; watch for the opinion,
whether publishers re-file on different grounds, and the contrast
with the training-copyright track (copyright-litigation thread),
with the training-copyright track (copyright-litigation thread),
where that theory has been losing too.
Background
The thread: the publishers' legal theory that AI answers steal
query traffic, meeting the courts. Chegg and Penske Media (Rolling
Stone) sued Google claiming AI Overviews divert traffic; Judge Amit
Mehta dismissed both (Verge ~1:12 PM ET, citing Reuters).