AI Fake Cite Sanction Reduced To $6,000 From $15,000 By Judge

( May 30, 2025, 2:22 PM EDT) -- INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana federal judge partially adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendation that the court impose sanctions against an attorney for submitting briefing with artificial intelligence-created fake citations, reducing the sanction to $6,000 from the recommended $15,000 while rejecting the attorney’s claim that the reputational damage he incurred as a result of using the fake cite mooted any need for further proceedings....