An appeal containing fake case citations that misrepresent the law can be dismissed as frivolous, a US federal appeals court panel said in a decision sanctioning two attorneys who submitted filings that bore hallmarks of artificial intelligence “hallucinations.”
The Cincinnati-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals said in its order on Friday that attorneys Van Irion and Russ Egli “sullied the reputation of our bar, which now must litigate under the cloud of their conduct.”
The court said it found more than two dozen fake citations and…
