Does anyone remember Mr. Pillow? LOL..he just keeps presenting his azz for just one more kicking.
Of more interest, his lawyers have been caught again using AI to 'phone it in'.
Again the judge caught an egregious legal error...leading him require the lawyers to show cause as to why he should not fine them and refer their cases to their respective Bars for disciplinary action.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell not only lost his latest motion to overturn a defamation verdict related to the 2020 election — the judge also said lawyers for the media company he founded must explain why they shouldn’t be fined and referred to their state bars for disciplinary proceedings.
Yet the actions of Frankspeech’s lawyers in defending against that motion led the judge to raise ethical concerns. Wang noted that, in their response to the plaintiff’s motion to increase the damages, defense lawyers Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster cited a case as having been decided by a federal appeals court. But the judge observed that it was actually a trial-level ruling that the lawyers misleadingly described, to boot.
“A reasonable review by counsel should have alerted them of the error,” Wang wrote.
Incredibly, this sort of thing wasn’t a one-off.
The judge pointed out that she had already sanctioned the defense lawyers for “this exact type of error,” which the lawyers had said then was due to the use of artificial intelligence and mistakenly filing the wrong draft.
“Regardless of whether generative artificial intelligence was used or not,” she wrote, the federal appeals court covering Colorado “has been clear that an attorney has a ‘fundamental duty’ to the Court to confirm that all legal authorities in submissions to the Court are accurately cited, reflect accurate quotations, and stand for the propositions for which they are cited.”
The judge bolded the phrase “fundamental duty.”
She deemed it “inexplicable” how these errors happened “yet again” — she bolded that phrase, too — after previously reminding the lawyers of their professional obligations. Recalling that she had sanctioned them $3,000 each, she wrote Wednesday that her actions thus far seemed to have had “little, if any, remedial impact.”
Of more interest, his lawyers have been caught again using AI to 'phone it in'.
Again the judge caught an egregious legal error...leading him require the lawyers to show cause as to why he should not fine them and refer their cases to their respective Bars for disciplinary action.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell not only lost his latest motion to overturn a defamation verdict related to the 2020 election — the judge also said lawyers for the media company he founded must explain why they shouldn’t be fined and referred to their state bars for disciplinary proceedings.
Yet the actions of Frankspeech’s lawyers in defending against that motion led the judge to raise ethical concerns. Wang noted that, in their response to the plaintiff’s motion to increase the damages, defense lawyers Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster cited a case as having been decided by a federal appeals court. But the judge observed that it was actually a trial-level ruling that the lawyers misleadingly described, to boot.
“A reasonable review by counsel should have alerted them of the error,” Wang wrote.
Incredibly, this sort of thing wasn’t a one-off.
The judge pointed out that she had already sanctioned the defense lawyers for “this exact type of error,” which the lawyers had said then was due to the use of artificial intelligence and mistakenly filing the wrong draft.
“Regardless of whether generative artificial intelligence was used or not,” she wrote, the federal appeals court covering Colorado “has been clear that an attorney has a ‘fundamental duty’ to the Court to confirm that all legal authorities in submissions to the Court are accurately cited, reflect accurate quotations, and stand for the propositions for which they are cited.”
The judge bolded the phrase “fundamental duty.”
She deemed it “inexplicable” how these errors happened “yet again” — she bolded that phrase, too — after previously reminding the lawyers of their professional obligations. Recalling that she had sanctioned them $3,000 each, she wrote Wednesday that her actions thus far seemed to have had “little, if any, remedial impact.”
