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The Sixth Circuit removed a CJA-appointed attorney from a criminal appeal after discovering his briefs — drafted using Westlaw’s CoCounsel AI — contained three fabricated quotations attributed to real cases. The attorney is denied CJA compensation, referred for bar discipline, and replaced. A landma
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros, suing pro se, cited non-existent statutory language from the VGMVPL and multiple non-existent cases in her Fox News employment litigation. SDNY inferred AI tool use, struck her unauthorized sur-reply, and warned that future AI citation violations may result in s
Pro se attorney Harry Thomasson filed an opposition brief containing fictitious AI-generated case citations in a New York federal case, then blamed a computer virus for the hallucinations. Judge Wicks rejected the defence, imposed a $1,500 sanction, and declined a bar referral — setting clear parame
Ohio’s 11th Appellate District sanctioned criminal defense attorney William Norman after he filed an application to reopen a murder conviction citing prosecutor quotes that never appeared in the trial record. Admitting under oath, Norman attributed the fabrications to AI use, receiving a public repr
Ohio’s Eleventh District Court of Appeals sanctioned Attorney William Norman with a $2,000 fine, disciplinary referral, and a two-year court-notification requirement after his paralegal used ChatGPT to fabricate prosecutor quotes in a murder appeal, exposing a systemic failure in AI oversight.
Alabama federal judge publicly reprimanded attorney Edward May for submitting two fabricated quotations generated by ChatGPT and OpenCase AI. May admitted using AI in a multi-step drafting process, arriving late to his own show-cause hearing, and filing a typographically sloppy response — all of whi
A C.D. California judge issued a show cause order threatening $2,500 in sanctions or dismissal after plaintiffs’ counsel misrepresented case holdings and included a non-existent quotation in a banking brief — and then failed to correct the errors even after defendants identified them in a reply.
Florida attorney Jeffrey Sullivan admitted using ChatGPT to research and draft a motion to dismiss that cited non-existent cases. Judge Mizelle imposed a minimal but public sanction: Sullivan was ordered to send his client copies of the show-cause order and this ruling, effectively turning client di
California’s First District Court of Appeal published a landmark warning extending AI hallucination sanctions to self-represented litigants after respondent Thomas Panas used generative AI to draft a brief citing two non-existent cases. The court reversed the child support order on the merits while
Louisiana attorney Ross LeBlanc admitted using EVE AI to draft motions that contained a fabricated quote from a real case. He voluntarily withdrew the briefs and wrote a candid apology letter to the court, acknowledging AI verification failures even where he believed safeguards were in place.