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California Immigration Attorneys Reportedly Sanctioned Over Briefs Containing Probable Hallucinations in LNU v. Blanche
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In brief
An AI system built by Large Language Model Developers and deployed by Sethi Law Group, Legal Professionals and 1 other allegedly harmed United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, Sunita Rani Lnu and 4 others.
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- Occurred
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What happened
California immigration attorneys Mike Singh Sethi and William Rounds were reportedly sanctioned in LNU v. Blanche after Ninth Circuit filings included purportedly fabricated and materially inaccurate legal authorities. The court said unauthorized generative AI use by unlicensed brief writers was probable and found that the attorneys failed to verify the filings and repeatedly lacked candor about the errors' source.
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Sethi Law Group, Legal Professionals, Law Firms
- Alleged developer
- Large Language Model Developers
- Alleged harmed party
- United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, Sunita Rani Lnu, Malkeet Lnu, Judicial Integrity, Jaivin Lohan, Epistemic Integrity
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Source record: incident #1571 on the AI Incident Database · all 1 report