A federal magistrate judge has recommended $15,000 in sanctions be imposed on an attorney who cited non-existent court cases concocted by an AI chatbot.
In a report [PDF] filed last week, Mark J. Dinsmore, US Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, recommends that attorney Rafael Ramirez, of Rio, Hondo, Texas, be “sanctioned $15,000 for his violations in this case – $5,000 for each of the three briefs filed by Mr Ramirez where he failed to appropriately verify the validity…
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/fine_sought_ai_filing_mistakes/
