Landberg v. City of New York — Second Dept. Sanctions Attorney $8,000 for AI-Hallucinated Case Citations
The Appellate Division, Second Department imposed $8,000 in sanctions on an attorney and $2,500 on his firm after he submitted a brief containing three fictitious AI-generated case citations, fabricated Court of Appeals quotations that directly contradicted actual law, and misrepresentations of real cases — then denied using AI at oral argument.