Self Reporting To Bar As Sanction For Fake Cites Permissible, Judge Says

( May 14, 2025, 10:33 AM EDT) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An attorney in an immigration case who outsourced the writing of a brief and failed to catch several resulting fake case citations possibly created with artificial intelligence cannot avoid the sanction of self reporting to the state bars of which he is a member, a federal judge in New Mexico said in overruling his objections to a magistrate judge’s ruling....