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#LegalEthics Tidbit: Is “panic” a good excuse for #AI hallucinations?

An Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) in NC “submitted a brief containing fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” that were hallucinated by #AI. The AUSA initially did not admit AI use, but claimed the “error was clerical in nature and resulted from the inadvertent filing of an unfinalized draft document.” At a later show cause hearing, the AUSA stated that ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nced.221403/gov.uscourts.nced.221403.131.0.pdf
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#LegalEthics Tidbit: Is “panic” a good excuse for #AI hallucinations?

An Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) in NC “submitted a brief containing fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” that were hallucinated by #AI. The AUSA initially did not admit AI use, but claimed the “error was clerical in nature and resulted from the inadvertent filing of an unfinalized draft document.” At a later show cause hearing, the AUSA stated that ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nced.221403/gov.uscourts.nced.221403.131.0.pdf
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Is “panic” a good excuse for #AI hallucinations?

An Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) in NC “submitted a brief containing fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” that were hallucinated by #AI. The AUSA initially did not admit AI use, but claimed the “error was clerical in nature and resulted from the inadvertent filing of an unfinalized draft document.” At a later show cause hearing, the AUSA stated that ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nced.221403/gov.uscourts.nced.221403.131.0.pdf
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Is “panic” a good excuse for #AI hallucinations?

An Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) in NC “submitted a brief containing fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” that were hallucinated by #AI. The AUSA initially did not admit AI use, but claimed the “error was clerical in nature and resulted from the inadvertent filing of an unfinalized draft document.” At a later show cause hearing, the AUSA stated that ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nced.221403/gov.uscourts.nced.221403.131.0.pdf
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Is “panic” a good excuse for #AI hallucinations?

An Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) in NC “submitted a brief containing fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” that were hallucinated by #AI. The AUSA initially did not admit AI use, but claimed the “error was clerical in nature and resulted from the inadvertent filing of an unfinalized draft document.” At a later show cause hearing, the AUSA stated that ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nced.221403/gov.uscourts.nced.221403.131.0.pdf
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In one of my 1782 cases, the D. Del. recently denied a motion to vacate when the documents were sought for use in prospective Italian patent infringement litigation. The courts will not allow "fishing," but when you have a basis to bring a foreign claim and you seek evidence needed to plead the case, Section 1782 can be a lifesaver.

#1782 #lawfedi

https://lettersblogatory.com/2026/09/07/case-of-the-day-in-re-biogen/

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Can I partner with an ABS if my state doesn’t allow them?

An Alternative Business Structure (ABS) is essentially a law firm owned in part by non-lawyers, which is a no-no in most states but not in AZ. SC does not allow ABS structures, but an AZ ABS wanted to find a SC lawyer to take SC lawyer cases. The deal would be that the ABS finds the clients, then gets local counsel to do most, if not ... (cont.)

https://www.scbar.org/for-lawyers/quicklinks/legal-resources/ethics-advisory-opinions/ethics-advisory-opinion-25-02/
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#LegalEthics Tidbit: Should I get sanctioned for #AI hallucinations if I clean up my own mess before anyone else has noticed?

A MS lawyer was ordered to show cause why he should not be sanctioned for hallucinated citations in a brief to a federal court. In response, the lawyer stated that he practices alone so his client, “acting in the capacity of paralegal,” drafted the brief, and the lawyer did not properly review the citations. The lawyer ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.alnd.198470/gov.uscourts.alnd.198470.36.0.pdf
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RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/116954518144682511

We’re going to need some legal word smithing on the order of the #GPL and the #CreativeCommons licenses to make a false statement an offence in as many ways and jurisdictions as possible (any ideas, #lawFedi folks?), some #EXIF and #ID3v2 and #PNG and comparable metadata tags for carrying legal statements attesting to non-use of media synthesis (mislabelled as #genAI by GPT vendors and NPU/TPU manufacturers), some apps to interview and educate the user about media provenance and add those tags iff applicable, and some #Fediverse and web browser add-ons to filter out media lacking them unless verifiably produced before a given date.

Today is World Wide Day of Genital Autonomy!

On this WWDOGA, let's review this resource guide from GALDEF:

Do Genital Mutilation Laws Protect Children Equally?
Six important legal questions for courts to consider

These are six key questions which are raised by the 2025 Equal Protection lawsuit Hadachek v. Oregon.

#LawFedi #WWDOGA #Autonomy #Circumcision #Intersex

Hi all! I studied computer science with a focus on RTOS and FP/PL, but I graduated law school earlier this year. I practice at a boutique firm that primarily handles IP cases. I foilboard and I play way too many rhythm games in and out of the arcade.

I contribute to open source projects where I can, and I write up my experience in my digital garden which I’ve been maintaining for 2 years now. It’s also a good place to find usage tips for projects/tools that you might want to use.

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My passion for tech also includes privacy, and I’m an advocate for minimizing your digital footprint. GenAI is a scam and its purveyors are causing real harm while they sell it as hard as they can.

Follow me for: #selfhosting #digitalgardening #privacy #lawfedi #section230 #copyright #patents #rustlang #gleam #haskell #RSS #neovim #NixOS #zotero #tmux #alacritty #linux #egpu #qemu #arch #archlinux #GNOME #watches #watchmaking #obsidian #obsidianmd #thunderbird #fpv #mechkeys #mechkeeb #mechanicalkeyboard #matrix #signal #fido2 #passkeys #dancerushstardom

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They should corelate the usage of #GangStalkingAttributes software install wise, namely #GammaGroup .Com's #FinFisher #FinSpy #Finsky #StateSponsoredMalware deployed by these #PedophileRings on #Meta's #TheFacebook #Instagram #WhatsApp & the #NanothechImplants & monitoring used by these #GangStalkingForum's who think they can ' manage ' people's lives through manipulation, generationally speaking.

Funny how three generations' of these ' families list of names ' proliferates around when their individual cases' and individual attributes are assessed, as a group, and since they are related, which reports they lied on, specifically. #GangStalkingAttributes #GenerationPedophileFamilyList #Meta #InstaCSAM #Instagram #BoomersONLY #CrimesOnlyMeta #investigations now in 30+ states in #AMER & #EU countries! 🔍🧐

#lawfedi #fedilaw #CALEASoftware #UK software used #FinFisher #EnemyOfTheInternet since 2012*

* Netpolitik has covered the closing, due to export licenses, of FinFisher . Com in #Germany in 2021, due cyber munitions export violations. ☣️🔍🧐

I swear, this is my last #ascend2023 post. But I wanted to share my published piece on Private Entities as Actors in Regional Space Governance Organizations.

Check it out here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alyson-decker-41459134_ascend-2023-publication-activity-7127330179785396224-bBsG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Or here: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/epdf/10.2514/6.2023-4600?Site=aiaa_frame.

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#spacelaw #spacepolicy #spacegovernance #fedilaw #lawfedi

Dismaying but not surprising--George Mason Law (renamed Antonin Scalia Law) built connections to Justices that gave litigants access. School provided Justices with luxury vacations "with a little teaching thrown in," urged them to take vacations at the ranches of litigants & allowed professors to file amicus briefs to SCOTUS as Justices were co-teaching with them. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/us/supreme-court-scalia-law-school.html #LawFedi #GeorgeMason #SCOTUS #LegalEthics

I know @Popehat was looking for this earlier, and it just hit the docket, the final jury verdict form from the Tesla Securities trial, completed by the foreperson.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.330489/gov.uscourts.cand.330489.671.0.pdf

#Law #LawFedi #Litigation #LitigationDisasterTourism #SecuritiesLaw

no one ever knows how long these things take, but you can imagine a quick verdict being good for musk and bad for plaintiffs because there's a lot of maths to do if they find liability, but we really won't know until we know!

#ElonMusk #Law #LawFedi #SecuritiesLaw #LitigationDisasterTourism #Litigation

the Tesla Securities trial v. Elon Musk in N.D. Cal. in Judge Chen's courtroom will have closing arguments tomorrow morning and will be in the hands of the jury within about 2 1/2 hours after the opening bell Friday

things will kick off as usual at 8:30am PT

same link, same bat channel:
https://cand-uscourts.zoomgov.com/j/1618304631?pwd=b2R4ZEVUTEFyZHRUWDA4bWQ2OW5IZz09

despite defendants' best efforts to show absolutely no shame, they will in fact be going second and plaintiff will get rebuttal

#ElonMusk #Law #LawFedi #SecuritiesLaw #Litigation