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Judge Fines Two of Mike Lindell’s Lawyers $3,000 Each for AI-Generated Errors

She said the penalties reflect the court’s intent to enforce attorneys’ duty to verify AI-assisted work under Rule 11.

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Mike Lindell talks to reporters at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif., Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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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.