U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York delivers his remarks after accepting the NYSBA Commercial & Federal Litigation Section's 2023 Stanley H. Fuld Award on Jan. 18th at the New York Midtown Hilton. The section presents the award annually in honor of the late Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals to recognize outstanding contributions to the development of commercial law and jurisprudence. (Photo: Rick Kopstein)

Judge Imposes $5K Fine on Lawyers Who Submitted ChatGPT-Generated Fake Case Citations

U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel did not order Steven Schwartz of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman and his associate Peter LoDuca to apologize, noting that "a compelled apology is not a sincere apology."

June 22, 2023 at 03:29 PM

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Legal Services

Jane Wester

The lawyers who admitted to using fake case citations generated by ChatGPT in a court filing will have to pay $5,000 in fines and reach out to each judge falsely identified as an author of the fake filings, U.S. District Court Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York ordered in a 34-page opinion Thursday.