Overview

• Two attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell were each fined $3,000 for submitting a pretrial motion in his defamation suit
• The filing contained nearly 30 defective or fictitious legal citations, including references to non-existent cases and misquotations
• Attorney Christopher I. Kachouroff admitted during a hearing that he used generative AI to draft the motion
• Judge Wang found their contradictory explanations and lack of corroborating evidence amounted to gross carelessness rather than an inadvertent mistake
• Lindell himself faced no penalties and the ruling underscores growing judicial scrutiny of AI-assisted filings in election misinformation litigation