Category: sanctioned

New York Lawyers Sanctioned for Using Fake ChatGPT Cases in Legal Brief

NEW YORK—A U.S. judge on Thursday imposed sanctions on two New York lawyers who submitted a legal brief that included six fictitious case citations generated by an artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel in Manhattan ordered lawyers Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca, and their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman to pay…


MP Hopes Bill Will Lead to More Human Rights Violators Being Sanctioned

MP Garnett Genuis said he hopes a bill introduced in Parliament last summer will lead to more human rights violators getting sanctioned. Bill C-281, a private member’s bill introduced by Conservative MP Philip Lawrence, seeks to amend several laws and for the Canadian government to put human rights abuses at the forefront, addressing issues such as misinformation…