A federal judge put My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell's lawyers "on notice" this week over nearly 30 citations in a legal brief submitted in a defamation lawsuit involving Eric Coomer, the former director of product security and strategy for voting technology supplier Dominion.
According to a report from KUSA's Kyle Clark, U.S. District Judge Nina Wang accused the attorneys for Lindell, who maintains the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, of using generative AI to supplement the brief.
In her ruling, Wang wrote, "...the Court identified nearly thirty defective citations in the Opposition. These defects include but are not limited to misquotes of cited cases; misrepresentations of principles of law associated with cited cases, including discussions of legal principles that simply do not appear within such decisions; misstatements regarding whether case law originated from a binding authority such as the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; misattributions of case law to this District; and most egregiously, citation of cases that do not exist."
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As KUSA's Clark explained, Wang has threatened attorney Christopher Kachouroff and associated attorneys with the loss of their licenses and is demanding an explanation.
Wang wrote in her show cause ruling, "Not until this Court asked Mr. Kachouroff directly whether the Opposition was the product of generative artificial intelligence did Mr. Kachouroff admit that he did, in fact, use generative artificial intelligence. After further questioning, Mr. Kachouroff admitted that he failed to cite check the authority in the Opposition after such use before filing it with the Court—despite understanding his obligations under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure."
She added, "Counsel will specifically address, under the oath subject to the penalty of perjury, the circumstances surrounding the preparation of the Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion in Limine, including but not limited to whether Defendants were advised and approved of their counsel's use of generative artificial intelligence …."
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