{"id":9100,"date":"2025-12-17T22:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-accuser-lawyers-ai-court-filings-lead-judge-to-punish-him\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:49:09","slug":"diddy-accuser-lawyers-ai-court-filings-lead-judge-to-punish-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-accuser-lawyers-ai-court-filings-lead-judge-to-punish-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddy Accuser Lawyer’s AI Court Filings Lead Judge to Punish Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tA lawyer who sued Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs is facing a judge\u2019s wrath after he used artificial intelligence and cited \u201challucinated case law\u201d in court filings \u2014 and it\u2019s not the first time.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a ruling Tuesday (Dec. 16), Judge Leo Gordon sharply criticized Tyrone Blackburn <\/strong>after the lawyer admitted he \u201cfabricated legal propositions derived from generative artificial intelligence\u201d during the case, which he filed against Combs on behalf of alleged victim Liza Gardner.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cMr. Blackburn confirmed that he indeed used AI that provided him with hallucinated case law and propositions that he then incorporated into his response brief and that he failed to verify on subsequent review,\u201d the judge wrote. \u201cDespite multiple forms of notice and warning, proper verification did not occur here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe judge ordered Blackburn to pay a $6,000 fine, but the more serious penalty was non-monetary: He must alert the bar associations in both New York and New Jersey about the AI mishap, so that those groups can \u201ctake whatever action they deem appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAI has become a major tool for lawyers \u2014 and a major problem for some of them. AI models often convincingly spit out false information, and lawyers have repeatedly been penalized for failing to catch them. In one high-profile case earlier this year, a Wyoming federal judge punished two lawyers<\/a> from personal injury firm Morgan & Morgan for citing AI-fabricated cases in a lawsuit against Walmart.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBlackburn, a New York attorney who has filed many eyebrow-raising cases in recent years, has already faced similar AI-related censure. In June, a federal judge threatened sanctions<\/a> after he filed a motion containing \u201cnon-existent quotations\u201d and other AI-generated errors \u2014 and then did so again in a brief defending his conduct: \u201cThe court views Blackburn\u2019s conduct as a clear ethical violation of the highest order,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tLawyers for Fat Joe, facing Blackburn in another lawsuit, have accused him of sloppily using AI in that case, too \u2014 claiming to have found \u201cat least ten instances\u201d of such problems. After Blackburn blamed the problem on AI-powered research tools offered by LexisNexis, the legal research giant itself responded that such claims were \u201cmisleading\u201d and that Blackburn \u201cnever an authorized user or subscriber\u201d of such tools.<\/p>\n

\n\tAI mishaps have already repeatedly cropped up in other music cases. In 2023, convicted ex-Fugees rapper Pras Michel accused his lawyer of botching his criminal trial partly because he relied on AI to help craft his closing arguments. And in May, an attorney from the prestigious firm Latham & Watkins apologized after an AI model created a fake footnote<\/a> for a real source \u2014 a misstep that, ironically, came in a brief filed on behalf of AI firm Anthropic in its battle with music publishers.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn the Gardner case, Blackburn repeatedly cited a case called \u201cUnited States v. Masha,\u201d claiming it was a 2021 ruling by a federal appeals court. But the case doesn\u2019t exist, which Blackburn later acknowledged after it was flagged by defense counsel. He later apologized, saying he took \u201cfull responsibility for this error.\u201d But for Judge Gordon, that was not enough.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMr. Blackburn\u2019s admission of responsibility and remorse expressed \u2026 do not completely excuse his lack of diligence, especially in light of the pattern behavior identified,\u201d the judge wrote, referring to previous discipline in other cases, including the previous AI problem.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Blackburn, the punishment might be the least his problems. In June, he was arrested for allegedly hitting Fat Joe\u2019s process server with his car \u201cin a failed attempt to avoid being served\u201d with the lawsuit. He was indicted in October and the case against him remains pending.<\/p>\n


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