A Mississippi lawyer accused of submitting legal memoranda containing fabricated case citations and nonexistent quotes was sanctioned over $20,000 and ordered to take a continuing legal education course on AI hallucinations.
Judge Sharion Aycock said she was “highly suspcious” that attorney Greta Kemp Martin used an AI tool to generate made-up legal authorities cited in her legal memoranda, according to her sanctions order filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
An attorneys has a duty “to conduct a ‘reasonable inquiry into the facts and law of a case at the time [at] which she affixes ...
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