Can a Lawyer Be Punished for Citing Fake AI Cases in Court?
A lawyer files a brief. The cases look real, the quotes sound right, and the citations are perfectly formatted. Then the judge checks, and none of it exists.
AI chatbots can invent court cases with total confidence, and judges across the country have started sanctioning lawyers who filed them without checking. This episode explains how AI hallucinations end up in court filings, what the rules actually say about a lawyer's duty to verify, what punishments judges have handed out, and what it could mean for how legal arguments are made in the future.
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