AI-Hallucinated Citations Result In $3K Sanction For Lawyer

By Bonnie Eslinger ( July 24, 2026, 9:13 PM EDT) -- A Washington federal judge on Friday sanctioned a plaintiff's attorney $3,000 after finding that she submitted multiple court filings containing dozens of fake citations and quotations generated by artificial intelligence platforms  and didn't fix the mistakes, calling the conduct "tantamount to bad faith."...

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