Michael Cohen at the Manhattan Supreme Courthouse last year. Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg US Judge Says No Sanction for Michael Cohen, Counsel for AI-Generated Fake Case Citation
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York found that Cohen's attorney David M. Schwartz did not act in bad faith when he submitted the fake citations, which Cohen acquired from the generative AI program Google Bard.
March 20, 2024 at 01:36 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York on Wednesday declined to impose sanctions on former Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen or Cohen's attorney David M. Schwartz after citations to nonexistent cases were discovered in a November court filing.
Furman wrote that Schwartz's submission of the citations was "embarrassing and certainly negligent, perhaps even grossly negligent," but ruled that it was not done in bad faith.
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