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Judge initially fooled by fake AI citations, nearly put them in a ruling
“Plaintiff’s use of AI affirmatively misled me,” judge writes.
Lacey's lawsuit alleges the insurance company refused to provide legal defense to her late husband, who faced a civil suit after pointing a gun at a group of activists who were on their porch. Legal scholar Eugene Volokh wrote about the incident yesterday, noting "that both of the firms involved (the massive 1,700-lawyer national one and the smaller 45-lawyer predominantly California one) have, to my knowledge, excellent reputations, and the error is not at all characteristic of their work." "From this, I decline to award any of the discovery relief (augmenting a privilege log, ordering production of materials, or requiring in camera review of items) that Plaintiff sought in the proceedings that led up to the bogus briefs."
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