E-Courts · 9 Jun 2026
Fabricated AI citations keep arriving in court filings
The public database maintained by researcher Damien Charlotin, which logs court decisions dealing with AI-invented cases, quotes and exhibits, had recorded 1,598 instances worldwide as of its 9 June 2026 update, up from a few dozen two years earlier. Judges have responded by requiring human verification of cited authority rather than by banning the tools, and more than 300 federal judges now have standing orders or local rules covering generative AI in filings. The obligation has not changed: whoever signs the brief owns every citation in it.
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