Minnesota County Loses Bid for Early Out of Property Tax Lawsuit

Fake case citations in a Minnesota county’s brief would be cause to decline to end a property tax case early, but the county’s arguments were “so clearly incorrect” that the full state tax courtinstead denied its motion on the merits.

A brief signed by Rachel E. Pence of the Wright County Attorney’s Office contained five fabricated case citations the court believes were hallucinated by artificial intelligence. The Minnesota Tax Court declined to sanction Pence by denying the motion since it found other grounds to do so, but reported her to the Minnesota Lawyer’s Professional Responsibility Board in a pair of ...