Overview
- U.S. District Judge Nina Wang ordered Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster to each pay $3,000 for a February motion in Lindell’s defamation case that contained nearly 30 defective citations generated by AI.
- The filing included misquotations of case law and citations to nonexistent decisions, prompting Wang to deem the errors sanction-worthy negligence rather than an inadvertent mistake.
- At a pretrial hearing, Kachouroff admitted he drafted the motion, ran it through generative AI and failed to verify the citations, accepting responsibility for the unchecked errors.
- Wang described the fines as the least severe sanction adequate to deter similar conduct under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11.
- Mike Lindell was not sanctioned and testified that he had no knowledge of his lawyers’ use of AI in drafting the error-ridden motion.