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AI and Court-Filing Fabrications: Sanctions Are Now Routine
Courts have moved from warnings to sanctions for AI-fabricated citations; your filing workflow needs a verification gate.
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- 1The premise
- 2legal filings
- 3hallucinated citations
- 4Rule 11
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Section 1
The premise
Mata v. Avianca was the warning shot. Sanctions, fines, and bar referrals for AI-fabricated case law are now common. The fix is a verification step, not a 'we trust the AI' policy.
What AI does well here
- Draft initial briefs and discovery responses
- Summarize lengthy depositions and contracts
- Suggest case-law arguments to investigate
What AI cannot do
- Reliably distinguish fabricated holdings from real ones
- Cite recent unpublished opinions that aren't in its training data
- Replace the lawyer's Rule 11 obligation to verify
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