Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Read the story: civilbeat.org/2025/08/honolulu-city-attorney-used-fictional-case-law-to-combat-civil-rights-suit

An attorney for the City and County of Honolulu just cited a case that doesn’t exist in a high-profile civil rights case.

The plaintiff in this case — the ACLU — suspects the attorney used artificial intelligence to draft the brief in question. The city denies this and chalks it up to a drafting error.

This comes amid a growing trend of “AI hallucinations” by lawyers.