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MyPillow Defense Lawyers in Coomer v. Lindell Reportedly Sanctioned for Filing Court Document Allegedly Containing AI-Generated Legal Citations
- Occurred
- Feb 25, 2025
- Published
- Apr 27, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In February 2025, lawyers Christopher I. Kachouroff and Jennifer T. DeMaster, representing Mike Lindell, reportedly used generative AI to draft a court brief that contained nearly 30 defective or fabricated citations. The error-filled filing violated federal court rules requiring factual and legal accuracy. The judge fined both lawyers $3,000 each, citing either the improper use of AI or gross carelessness as the cause of the misleading legal content.
Developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- Jennifer T. DeMaster
- Christopher I. Kachouroff
- McSweeny Synkar and Kachouroff PLLC
Harmed parties
- MyPillow
- Mike Lindell
- Judicial integrity
- Jennifer T. DeMaster
- Epistemic integrity
- Christopher I. Kachouroff
- McSweeny Synkar and Kachouroff PLLC
Tags
- syndicated
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Generative AI caused fabricated legal citations leading to court sanctions and fines.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8