Morgan & Morgan Lawyers Fined for ‘Hallucinated’ AI Citations

Feb. 25, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

Three Morgan & Morgan PA attorneys were sanctioned by a federal court in Wyoming for filing a motion that contained eight AI-generated cites for cases that didn’t exist.

Lawyers still have an ethical duty to check the cites used in their legal filings and “read the case to ensure the excerpt is existing law to support their propositions and arguments,” Judge Kelly H. Rankin said Monday for the US District Court for the District of Wyoming.

While representing a client in a suit against Walmart Inc., Rudwin Ayala drafted the motion in limine and submitted it ...

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