Federal District Judge Sharion Aycock has sanctioned and disqualified all the lawyers on both sides of a case, including local counsel, for including hallucinated cites in pleadings and for not verifying them. It’s a well-reasoned and well supported 23-page Opinion containing many of the relevant opinions from other courts. It’s also a textbook on how not to act before a court. It should be required reading for all lawyers and legal professionals who are using or thinking of using AI.

I may well become the seminal case on these issues. Here’s my discussion of what happened and why for Above the Law.