{"id":273146,"date":"2026-06-14T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/courts-cracking-down-on-error-strewn-ai-assisted-legal-briefs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T00:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:55:20","slug":"courts-cracking-down-on-error-strewn-ai-assisted-legal-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/courts-cracking-down-on-error-strewn-ai-assisted-legal-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts cracking down on error-strewn AI-assisted legal briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courts cracking down on error-strewn AI-assisted legal briefs<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/courts-cracking-down-error-strewn-022945093.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-14 22:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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When a US judge found fabricated quotes in a lawyer’s brief earlier this year, the attorney admitted he had used Claude, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to write the document.<\/p>\n

That got him a fine and a mandatory course on how to use AI properly.<\/p>\n

But this case was just one in a rising tide of AI “hallucinations” muddying the legal waters. Now some courts are trying to stem the tide by cracking down on the lawyers concerned.<\/p>\n

It was judge Jerry Edwards Jr., of Louisiana district court, who sanctioned the lawyer in that recent US case last month. He found the AI-generated hallucinations while reviewing a motion to block evidence from being admitted in a personal injury case.<\/p>\n

He caught seven quotes attributed to previous court rulings that either did not appear in the original decisions or had been misrepresented.<\/p>\n

The hapless lawyer said a law clerk had caught other fabricated quotes in a first draft. Instead of learning from his mistake however, the attorney simply asked Claude to correct the errors — then submitted the brief without reviewing it.<\/p>\n

The attorney had believed the AI’s output was accurate, said the court’s May 18 memorandum order announcing the sanctions.<\/p>\n

“Ignorance of the risks of AI usage is no longer an excuse,” the judge wrote, fining the lawyer $1,000 and sending him on a three-hour course on AI-assisted legal practice.<\/p>\n

But he at least granted part of the motion.<\/p>\n

– Hundreds of cases –<\/p>\n

AI-generated blunders do not necessarily destroy a lawyer’s case, French lawyer Damien\u00a0Charlotin told AFP.<\/p>\n

“The lawyer’s credibility is in tatters — but there are cases where lawyers still win, despite the hallucinations, because they were right on the merits,” he explained.<\/p>\n

But there are other issues.<\/p>\n

Judge Linda Kevins of New York State’s Supreme Court warned in a January ruling that such blunders wasted the time and money of both the opposing party and the court.<\/p>\n

In addition, she said, they were “potentially harming the reputation of judges and courts whose names are…<\/p>\n

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