Docket entry 68, 25 June 2025 · source · PDF · 3 pages
Docket text. ORDER with respect to 51 Motion in Limine. The parties are placed on notice that legal citations, quotations, and holdings that have been generated by generative artificial intelligence may be hallucinations. The presentation of false citations, quotations, and holdings by a party or their counsel to the Court is sanctionable conduct. The parties are expected to confirm that citations, quotations, and holdings that are presented to the Court are correct. The Court will consider the presentat ion of fictitious materials to the Court after the date of this order to be evidence of subjective bad faith of the party or lawyer submitting the document to the Court for purposes of imposing sanctions under Rule 11 or the Court's inherent authority. SO ORDERED.. (Signed by Judge Gregory H. Woods on 6/25/2025) (sgz)
21, 1988). USDC SDNY DOCUMENT ELECTRONICALLY FILED DOC #: _________________ DATE FILED: 6/25/2025 2 Plaintiff’s use of a fictitious citation and quotation bears the emblems of the use of a generative artificial intelligence tool. Generative artificial intelligence tools can fabricate or “hallucinate” legal precedent.
2024-5 at 7 & n.22. The use of fictitious citations has resulted in the imposition of sanctions on the parties responsible. See Linn F.
As a result, the Court is not taking action at this time as a result of Plaintiff’s presentation of fictitious citations to the Court.
2009). The parties are placed on notice that legal citations, quotations, and holdings that have been generated by generative artificial intelligence may be hallucinations. The presentation of false citations, quotations, and holdings by a party or their counsel to the Court is sanctionable conduct.
The parties are expected to confirm that citations, quotations, and holdings that are presented to the Court are correct. The Court will consider the presentation of fictitious materials to the Court after the date of this order to be evidence of subjective bad faith of the party or lawyer submitting the document to the Court for purposes of imposing sanctions under Rule 11 or the Court’s inherent authority. SO ORDERED.