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Judge blasts DOJ for using AI to write filings with fake citations

When the case law you are citing isn't real, neither is your case.

Jason Weisberger
Mar 27, 2026
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A federal judge tore into Justice Department lawyers after finding their court filing relied on nonexistent legal precedent, raising serious questions about whether AI-generated text, complete with hallucinated citations, made its way into official arguments.

“Neither of these quotes appear in Planned Parenthood, nor in any Eighth Circuit case the Court …

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