Panel Affirms $65K Attorney Fee And Costs Award, Critiques Pro Se AI Usage

( July 29, 2026, 9:41 AM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate panel affirmed an attorney fee and costs award worth more than $65,000 in favor of an attorney who was sued by a seller in a failed real estate deal and ordered the pro se appellant to show cause why she should not be sanctioned by being barred from making further pro se filings after finding that her brief was filled with “nonsense” arguments and “legal double talk,” signs of what the panel said is the “growing problem” in Florida of pro se litigants using AI-generated briefs in appeals....