Oct 20, 2025Single source
California immigration attorneys sanctioned over Ninth Circuit briefs with probable AI-fabricated citations
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California immigration attorneys Mike Singh Sethi and William Rounds were reportedly sanctioned in LNU v. Blanche. Ninth Circuit filings contained purportedly fabricated and inaccurate legal authorities. The court found unauthorized generative AI use by unlicensed brief writers probable, and said the attorneys failed to verify the filings and lacked candor about the errors' source.
What this means for youAI writing tools can invent facts and legal citations that look real. Anyone who files documents with a court or agency should check every source themselves before submitting.
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- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1571
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