California Immigration Attorneys Reportedly Sanctioned Over Briefs Containing Probable Hallucinations in LNU v. Blanche
California immigration attorneys Mike Singh Sethi and William Rounds were reportedly sanctioned in LNU v. Blanche after Ninth Circuit filings included purportedly fabricated and materially inaccurate legal authorities. The court said unauthorized generative AI use by unlicensed brief writers was probable and found that the attorneys failed to verify the filings and repeatedly lacked candor about the errors' source.
- Date it happened
- 2025-10-20
- Organisation involved
- Sethi Law Group, Legal professionals, Law firms
- Product, system or model
- Large language models, AI-assisted legal research systems, AI-assisted legal drafting systems
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