{"id":6038,"date":"2025-05-25T06:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/florida-judge-sanctions-lawyers-over-ai-generated-false-legal-citation\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:58:49","slug":"florida-judge-sanctions-lawyers-over-ai-generated-false-legal-citation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/florida-judge-sanctions-lawyers-over-ai-generated-false-legal-citation\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Judge Sanctions Lawyers Over AI-Generated False Legal Citation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman in the Southern District of Florida sanctioned pro hac vice counsel and local counsel this week to remind litigators that federal courts \u201ctake the submission of a hallucinated, fake case citation supposedly supporting a principle of law very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>\u201cThis case should be a warning to lawyers that your pleadings, motions, responses, replies, and other papers filed with any Court must be first checked and then double-checked,\u201d Matthewman wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/84\/f0\/6cc9f225499c918f1b6bd259ae59\/versant-funding-v-teras-breakbulk-ocean-navigation-enterprises-order-u-s-district-court-for-the-southern-district-of-florida.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>16-page order<\/u><\/a>. \u201cThere is no room in our court system for the submission of fake, hallucinated case citations, facts, or law. And it is entirely preventable by competent counsel who do their jobs properly and competently.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman in the Southern District of Florida sanctioned pro hac vice counsel and local counsel this week to remind litigators that federal courts \u201ctake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[442,6090,1880,703,423,7,136,980],"class_list":["post-6038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-aigenerated","tag-citation","tag-false","tag-florida","tag-judge","tag-lawyers","tag-legal","tag-sanctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}