Overview
- Sam Altman, who filed late Wednesday, asked a St. Louis federal judge to strike his sister’s punitive damages claim and to dismiss her lawsuit.
- He argued Missouri’s child sexual abuse law limits recovery to damages for injury or illness and does not allow punitive awards for conduct alleged when he was a minor.
- Altman denies the allegations and has a defamation counterclaim seeking $1 to obtain a court finding that his sister’s statements are false.
- Annie Altman alleges repeated abuse from 1997 to 2006 in the family’s Clayton, Missouri home, and the family has said she has mental health challenges and received financial help.
- The case remains in pretrial stages as a separate trial in Elon Musk’s $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft is set for April 27.