More Fake Legal Citations

[Three years on, LLM flaws remain.]
Lawyers are in trouble for citing imaginary legal cases.

A federal judge in Mississippi has punished all four lawyers on opposing sides in a civil trial and canceled the proceedings after some of them, relying on artificial intelligence, cited fake legal cases in court filings.

Two of the lawyers have been barred for two years from appearing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi for their conduct, while all four were removed from the case and fined.

It’s not the first time. A.I. can provide useful first drafts, but you really, really need a human checking its work.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/ai-lawyers-sanctioned-mississippi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pFA.SmzD.nVrHGlISvpsi&smid=url-share