A New Jersey attorney must pay a federal court $3,000 for misusing artificial intelligence in support of a motion to consolidate cases between feuding ramen noodle distributors.
Fort Lee, NJ-based Sukjin Henry Cho failed to check the citations on a reply brief supporting his efforts to consolidate litigation between his client, OTG New York, Inc. and Ottogi America, Inc. in a fight over a contract for exclusive distribution of the Korean food brand on the East Coast. Cho lost the motion, but earned a court reprimand.
“Examples abound where district courts have found legal briefs containing AI hallucinated case law ...