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A New York attorney was immediately suspended after her AI-generated brief filed in federal immigration court contained fabricated citations — then refused to cooperate with the state bar investigation, calling it a “racist attack.” The First Department’s order under 22 NYCRR 1240.9 shows how AI mis
An Alabama attorney filed opening and reply briefs in a Supreme Court appeal that contained an astounding number of invalid, inaccurate, and irrelevant citations — all apparent AI hallucinations. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal entirely, imposed sanctions, and issued a comprehensive ruling on
A defendant attorney who used AI to draft a special motion to dismiss admitted to the court that AI wrote the brief. After finding eight problematic citations, the court excised the AI-generated portions and decided the motion on the statutory framework alone — denying the motion and holding that de
A pro se appellant in a post-dissolution civil lawsuit filed an appellate brief containing citations to nonexistent authorities and fictitious holdings. The Illinois Third District Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s dismissal on the merits, granted defense sanctions for the AI-hallucinated
In Arkansas’s first-ever published ruling on AI-hallucinated citations, the Court of Appeals dismissed a pro se appellant’s entire appeal because his brief cited multiple cases that simply do not exist in any legal database. The court issued a comprehensive warning about AI use in appellate practice
In a follow-up sanctions order in an employment discrimination case, the court sanctioned the senior named partner of a law firm after the firm’s associate used AI to draft a brief containing a fabricated citation. The supervising attorney argued he did not draft the brief and was unaware — the cour
In a Florida family law certiorari petition filed by a pro se litigant, the appellate court found that only 4 of 13 cited cases both existed and stood for the propositions asserted. Five cases were entirely fabricated; four real cases were cited for propositions they do not support. The court issued
In a landmark AI-sanctions ruling, an Alabama federal court imposed $55,597 in attorneys’ fees, publicly reprimanded attorney Franklin Eaton, and recommended the Alabama State Bar find him incompetent to practice law — all for a pattern of fabricated citations and misstatements that pervaded his ent
An applicant before Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal cited a case that doesn’t exist in a procedural motion, with the adjudicator concluding this represented use of AI to generate fake case law. The tribunal dismissed the procedural request and ordered the applicant to provide digital copies of all f
Joshua Harris filed a Fair Credit Reporting Act lawsuit and proceeded to submit fabricated AI-generated citations in four separate filings across three show cause hearings. After being warned repeatedly and given multiple opportunities to comply, he admitted at a hearing that dismissal was an approp