AI in Court
Judge’s Having Referred Lawyer to State Bar for Alleged AI Hallucinations Doesn’t Require Judge to Recuse
The Plaintiffs, acting through their attorney Loletha Denise Hale ("Attorney Hale"), have filed a motion for reconsideration of the Court's granting of summary judgment to the Defendant on the Plaintiffs'…
Iffy Claim That Arbitrator “Outsourc[ed] His Adjudicative Role to Artificial Intelligence” Dismissed for Procedural Reasons
From the motion to vacate the arbitrator's award in LaPaglia v. Valve Corp. (S.D. Cal.): Arbitrator Saydah's opinion for Mr. LaPaglia's case has telltale signs of AI generation. The facts section cites facts…
Expert Report Admitted Despite AI Hallucinations in Citations
From retired Third Circuit Judge Thomas Vanaskie (who had also served on the Middle District of Pennsylvania), and who was serving as a court-appointed Special Master in In re: Valsartan Losartan, and Irbesartan Products…
“As Colossal a Collection of Excuses and Projection as the Court Has Seen in 25 Years on the Bench,” Says Court About Lawyer’s Response in Fabricated Citation Dispute
From The Doc App, Inc. v. Leafwell, Inc., decided Nov. 26 by Judge Sheri Polster Chappell (M.D. Fla.): The Court finds that Mr. Castro violated Rule 11(b) in filing the Motion for TRO and imposes sanctions. His motion…
$2900 in Sanctions for AI Hallucinations in Filings by Self-Represented Litigant
From Monday's decision in Lothamer Tax Resolution, Inc. v. Kimmel, by Chief Judge Hala Jarbou (W.D. Mich.): This order comes in response to pro se Defendant Paul Kimmel's pattern of submitting misleading filings to…
If You Can Afford ChatGPT, You Can Afford Sanctions for Filing Motions with ChatGPT Hallucinations
From Jarrus v. Governor, decided yesterday by Judge F. Kay Behm (E.D. Mich.): The court is cognizant that imposing a monetary sanction on plaintiffs who qualify for IFP status may be ineffective. However, the court also…
One of the 100 Biggest American Law Firms Pays >$50K Because of AI Hallucinations in Filings
From In re Jackson Hospital & Clinic, Inc., issued by Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Hawkins Thursday, following the court's earlier observation of "pervasive inaccurate, misleading, and fabricated citations,…
Lawyer’s “Repeated Claims That the Spurious Citations Resulted from Clerical Errors Unrelated to the Use of Generative AI Are Not Credible”
From Monday's opinion by Justice Frank Menetrez, joined by Justices Richard Fields and Michael Raphael, in Schlichter v. Kennedy: Grotke's approach differs from those taken by the attorneys in Noland and Alvarez .…
Hallucinated Citations Created When Using Generative AI “to Improve the Writing in [a] Brief”
From a declaration in Green Building Initiative, Inc. v. Green Globe Int'l, Inc., a case I wrote about last month (Apparent AI Hallucinations in Filing from Two >500-Lawyer Firms): In preparing the Reply brief, I…
They Just Can’t Help It, AI Hallucination Edition
From Judge Judith Levy (E.D. Mich.) in Evans v. Robertson, the I've Seen Fake Cites on Both Sides Now case: The litigants in this case … have been repeatedly warned that factitious citations will not be tolerated by the…
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