Overview

• Judge Wang ordered attorneys Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster to pay $3,000 each for submitting an AI-generated opposition brief in Mike Lindell’s defamation case.
• The February 25 filing featured almost 30 defective citations, including misquoted precedents and references to cases that do not exist.
• Christopher Kachouroff acknowledged during a pretrial hearing that he used generative AI to draft the motion and failed to verify its accuracy.
• The judge found the attorneys’ contradictory statements and lack of supporting evidence showed gross negligence under Rule 11 rather than an inadvertent error.
• Mike Lindell was not personally sanctioned and remains responsible for the $2.3 million defamation verdict against him and FrankSpeech.